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How the Eaton Fire impacted lives of children in foster care | KABC-TV

“Children in foster care face significant trauma throughout their lives,” said Taylor Dudley, executive director at the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families. “This fire compounded that trauma.” Researchers at the center are studying the impact that the Eaton Fire had on the lives and education of children in the foster care system.

Is a political inferno coming for American democracy? | ABC News (Australia)

It’s not usual to have re-districting happen in the middle of a decade,” UCLA law professor Richard Hasen says. “It does happen occasionally, but this is 100 per cent driven by Donald Trump’s attempt to try to fight against what many people see as inevitable, which is Republicans losing control of the House of Representatives. “It really is a race to the bottom.”

Thousands of immigrants vulnerable to losing their jobs | HuffPost

“These are workers that have the legal right to work in this country … they’ve been vetted, they’ve gone through the background checks,” says Victor Narro, the project director for the UCLA Labor Center. 

‘Six-seven’ has no definition. But it’s loaded with meaning | The Guardian

Daria Bahtina, a sociolinguist and continuing lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, says the purpose of language isn’t just “to convey information, but to construct relationships, express attitudes and signal belonging.”

Checking in on Southern California rehab centers | LAist 89.3-FM’s “AirTalk”

“There are really different points of entry into the treatment system. But what can happen is when an individual is in crisis at a very vulnerable time, and families are desperate, they may do a Google search and end up calling a call center, and get routed to a treatment program,” said UCLA’s Larissa Mooney (approx. 2:45 mark).

Feeling lonely? Try happy hour with your coworkers | KCRW 89.9-FM

Cassie Holmes is a professor of behavioral decision-making at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business. Holmes says to get beyond the superficial layer at work, people have to equally share things about themselves. Each semester she does a making a friend exercise with her MBA students. People pair up and ask a series of questions that start with: what’s your name? What do you do for work? (approx. 2:00 mark).