Economist Carlo Medici awarded RSF Grant

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Assistant Professor Carlo Medici was awarded a Russell Sage Foundation grant for the project "Immigration, Race, and the Boundaries of Organized Labor in the Twentieth Century." Using archival records and census and electoral data, Medici will…

UC Approves Master of Population Data Science Program

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We are delighted to announce that the proposal for the Master of Population Data Science (MPDS) program has received UC approval. The proposal progressed successfully through multiple levels of review, receiving support from the Executive Vice…

California Launches First-in-the-Nation Tracker on AI and Job Loss

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California has rolled out a new tool that tracks how AI may be reshaping the job market in real time. The California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) is a joint venture by the Governor's Office, the California Employment Development Department…

Four new studies examine health, climate, and policy changes facing unhoused populations

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Four recent studies by CCPR Faculty Fellow Professor Randall Kuhn and CCPR Affiliate Professor Kathryn Leifheit, examining the impact of the January 2025 fires on people experiencing homelessness, medical concerns facing unsheltered homeless…

Self-employed Hispanic women may be at lower risk for cardiovascular disease compared with their salaried counterparts

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Recent findings from CCPR Faculty Affiliate Dr. Kimberly Narain and colleagues show that self-employed Hispanic women report less high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, poor health, and binge drinking compared to Hispanic women working for…

New findings from 20 years of research on Latino Health

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Latinos are the second largest racial/ethnic group in the US, comprising about one-fifth of the population in 2024. Their widely recognized survival advantage over most other racial/ethnic groups; however, often obscures the many health-related…

Deportation Data Project receives national media coverage

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A recent report from the Deportation Data Project found that deportations from within the United States increased by a factor of 4.6 during the first nine months of the second Trump administration. This report has received coverage in USA Today, NBC,…

The New York Times cites CCPR Director Bailey’s M-CARES RCT

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CCPR Director Martha Bailey's Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study (M-CARES) is cited in a New York Times article. Read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opinion/health-care-medicaid-cuts.…

The Washington Post uses data from Prof. Blair’s Deportation Data Project

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Data from Professor Blair's Deportation Data Project were featured on the front page of the Washington Post: "ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of at-large arrests, data shows."

UCLA Newsroom highlights CCPR Director Martha Bailey’s M-CARES findings on public health impacts of fully subsidized contraception

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CCPR Director Martha Bailey's study, Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study (M-CARES), examines changes in the choice of contraception and pregnancy outcomes over time for low-income women by removing all contraceptive…