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The annual data release also highlights the health effects of wildfires, access to health care, hate incidents, among hundreds of other topics.

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research updated the California Elder Index, and it shows that the cost of living exceeds many people’s means.

A new UCLA report offers recommendations for increasing student use of CalFresh, the state’s federally funded food assistance program.

The latest edition of the nation’s largest state health survey spotlights trends in housing discrimination, health care access and other topics.

Winning projects in the Health Equity Challenge support mental health and treating people experiencing homelessness.

Residents of denser, larger cities tend to have higher wage and salary incomes, but new research demonstrates that not everyone benefits equally.

The newest California Health Interview Survey highlights high rates of food insecurity, hate incidents and difficulties accessing health care.

A study by researchers from UCLA, USC and Los Angeles County, suggests that the likely cause is the vulnerability brought on by accelerated aging.

In a new report, UCLA researchers recommend extending eviction protections for all, until unemployment figures reach pre-pandemic levels.

The NIH-funded project aims to increase COVID-19 testing access and uptake for underserved and vulnerable populations.

A UCLA Center for Health Policy Research brief notes that a looming shortage of dentists in the state could exacerbate the problem.

Report examined 14 school districts, which together serve more than two-thirds of Black students in the region.

Rates are higher among poor, multiracial, female, gender-nonconforming and foreign-born young people, a UCLA study shows.

UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation report shows that outreach is effective in connecting programs with lower-income residents.

UCLA scholars like Darnell Hunt, Robin D.G. Kelley and Kimberlé Crenshaw, among others, have shared their knowledge with media to help people understand what’s happening.

The heads of academic units dedicated to social justice renew their commitment to ensuring their research, teaching and service are not complicit with the expansion of the police state.

Zach Rutland, who is on track to graduate in June with his master’s in library and information science, has interned at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive.

The pandemic has highlighted our existing health disparities. Good data can prevent them from widening, says UCLA’s Ninez Ponce.

Report examines the number of homeless residents in Los Angeles, how this has changed over time, and how homelessness differs by race and ethnicity.

In online interviews with a professor, UCLA Luskin social welfare alumni reveal some fear, some frustrations and a whole lot of dedication.

The report was sponsored by the Latino Policy and Politics Initiative and the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Till von Wachter, director of the California Policy Lab, says that even with the CARES Act prolonged large-scale unemployment may still be hard to reverse.

UCLA junior Ahmad Elhaija used a Strauss Foundation scholarship to help provide access to affordable, quality medical care in low-income and refugee communities.

During a Zócalo/UCLA Downtown program panelists discussed what everyday Angelenos can do about homelessness.

Economic anthropologist Hannah Appel will focus on future of finance in new role at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.