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Why are working people falling behind? A leading UCLA researcher examines the causes of widening inequality.

For the past 60 years, a UCLA Extension program has been helping technical professionals develop the “people” skills they need to become excellent managers and team leaders.

Even if union workers are exempted from the city’s forthcoming minimum wage increase, study predicts, there would be minimal short-term impact on their salaries.

The Labor Studies Applied Research Methods course at the UCLA Labor Center introduces students to basic social science research methods by immersing them in a hands-on project to assist community organizations.

Tobias Higbie is a UCLA scholar of labor history who is using digitized historical records to gain new perspectives about labor and social movements of past eras.

'Re:Work,' a radio show produced by the UCLA Labor Center to highlight the contributions of workers in America, has won a national Gracie Award for Outstanding Portrait/Biography in the category for local, public and student radio and television.

In this satirical op-ed, emeritus professor Jack Rothman calls attention to the problem of growing inequality in the United States.

A national leader in identifying dangerous chemical exposures and then applying the findings toward regulations to protect health, John Froines has spent his career pursuing both.

Law professor Steven Bank proposes a compromise between Major League Soccer leadership and its players union that is inspired by how the University of California is structured.

Study by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health points out another disturbing impact of income inequality: its effect on people’s health.

A professor in the UCLA Anderson School writes that the ubiquitous and dreaded review discourages honesty and impedes personal improvement.

Law professor writes that as union membership decreases and the use of contractors and temporary workers increases, it’s not just employees who lose, but also employers.

The Ready to Work program, run by the Los Angeles Black Worker Center, a project of the UCLA Labor Center, helps blacks in L.A. qualify for union apprenticeships in the trades.

The UCLA Labor Center produces the nation's only storytelling radio show that focuses on workers and the issues they face. Students and community members work on Re:Work Radio and learn storytelling skills and multimedia production.

Education professor Mike Rose says that teens and young adults headed for vocational careers deserve promises of employment stability and fulfilling work.

Economists Lee Ohanian of UCLA and Nobel laureate Edward Prescott of Arizona State University maintain that an important factor contributing to declining productivity growth is the large decline in the creation of new businesses.

The Anderson Forecast has partnered with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's office to help launch a new online open data portal called DataLA to make information readily available to residents.

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, project director with the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education where he teaches classes in labor studies, talks about the first biopic to feature iconic Chicano labor leader Cesar Chavez.