Social Inequities and Solutions

Featured Centers/Institutes/Projects

• Research Centers
  • California Social Science Experimental Laboratory (CASSEL)
  • Center for Civil Society (CCS)
  • UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
  • The Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
  • Center for Policy Research on Aging
  • Center for Globalization and Policy Research
  • Center for the Study of Urban Poverty (CSUP)
• Institutes
  • UCLA Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR)
• Schools
  • UCLA School of Public Affairs

Leadership

• Abel Valenzuela
  Director, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty (CSUP)

• David O. Sears
  Director, UCLA Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR)

• Barbara Nelson
  Dean, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research

• Richard E. Brown
  Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

• Helmut Anheier
  Director, Center for Globalization and Policy Research

Reports

• Center on Budget & Policy Priorities and The Economic Policy Institute Report
  PULLING APART: A STATE BY STATE ANALYSIS OF INCOME TRENDS
  Income Inequality Rises In Most States, April 2008
  
  The stagnation & decline for middle and low income families over the past few decades is in stark contrast to the steady capital increases in high income families. A recent study by the Center on Budget & Policy and The Economic Policy Institute examines income disparity at the state level by comparing income trends among the highest to the lowest class and how these effects are harmful on the nation's economy and political system. Click here to download the report.

• Bunche Research Report
  GAMING THE SYSTEM
  Inflation, Privilege, and the Under-representation of African American Students at the University of California
  Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, January 2008
  
  Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, UCLA ’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies established the College Access Project for African Americans (CAPAA) in 2002 to examine the crisis of severe underrepresentation confronting African Americans in California’s public institutions of higher education.  The latest Bunche Research Report, “Gaming the System,” examines how each UC campus has operationalized comprehensive review and, more specifically, how each campus’ admissions process affects African American access to the UC system.  The report assesses how well comprehensive review at each UC campus (except UC Merced which does not employ comprehensive review) addresses educational disparities and ensures ethnic and racial diversity.  The report also presents recommendations on what the UC system, each UC campus, and the community can do to increase and preserve diversity at each UC campus. Click here to download the report.

News

• New study builds on old one to track Mexican American progress
  By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2008
  
  In 1992, construction workers retrofitting UCLA's undergraduate library discovered many dusty boxes hidden behind a bookshelf in the basement. The boxes contained research materials and questionnaires from a pioneering 1965 study on Mexican Americans. Sociology professors Vilma Ortiz and Edward Telles skimmed the surveys, which included names and addresses. That's when they decided to embark on an ambitious project: re-interviewing the families and assessing the integration of Mexican Americans over time.
  

• Report Says That the Rich Are Getting Richer Faster, Much Faster
  By David Cay Johnston, New York Times, December 15, 2007