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Today at the State of Workers in the Inland Empire report release, UC Riverside investigators presented recent statistics on labor market demographics, wages, cost of living, and worker training needs to adapt to changing conditions and emerging technologies such as electric vehicles, or EVs. One report drew primarily on five-year...

A California appeals court has temporarily blocked the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s controversial ban on critical race theory (CRT), ruling the policy is unconstitutionally vague and could silence educators. The decision halts enforcement of the district’s Resolution 21 policy, which was approved in late 2022, pending the outcome of...

For many students of color, adjusting to college means navigating unfamiliar academic and social settings, often while also managing stress borne from experiences relating to race. A UC Riverside study, which appeared in the journal Race and Social Problems, sought to better understand their experiences, to find what helped students...

Dana Simmons wants you to know that if you are hungry, it is not your fault. In her recently released book, “On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic,” published by UC Press, Simmons challenges the idea that hunger is a natural result of scarcity as she...

“An experience that I went through as a kid was the lack of a father.” Over the next 39 minutes, the 20-something Latino male detailed how his parents’ separation led him to pull away from his family. He was 7 or 8 years old when his dad moved out, but...

“With 91.9 KVCR, it’s Allison Wang,” came the voice over the radio waves. Wang’s voice emanated confidence as she announced the start of a segment on the San Bernardino-based public radio station. But Wang isn’t a professional radio journalist. She’s a KVCR intern, a UCR student, and, for the past...

A UC Riverside-led study has found that a smartphone app that tracks household water use and alerts users to leaks or excessive consumption offers a promising tool for helping California water agencies meet state-mandated conservation goals. The study found that use of the app—called Dropcountr—reduced average household water use by...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were major public health efforts to reduce infection rates and mitigate serious health effects of the disease through promotion of behavior such as getting vaccinated and wearing masks. An obstacle was the broad and rapid spread of misinformation about the coronavirus that causes the illness...

Addressing a critical teacher shortage, UC Riverside has partnered with the San Bernardino City Unified School District to launch a new teacher residency program that fully covers tuition, provides living stipends, and guarantees teaching jobs for successful participants. The program, which began recruiting students this spring, is open to candidates...

As the nation’s colleges and universities respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “race-neutral” admissions mandates and the Trump administration’s efforts to cut funding to campuses with DEI programs, a UC Riverside education professor urges institutions to respond to racial inequalities by working to improve their “racial climate health”—a concept she...

Online webinar platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams have enabled public discourse at an unprecedented scale. But when hundreds of people join a meeting, the flow of feedback—often reduced to rapid-fire chat messages—becomes chaotic and overwhelming. Kevin Esterling, a public policy and political science professor at UC Riverside...

In his first book, UC Riverside Professor of Philosophy Barry Lam broaches widespread criminalization and argues to return decision-making power to “the street level.” “The proliferation of rules and mandates is making us dumber, less moral, more deceptive, and less able to govern important institutions,” Lam argues in “ Fewer...

UC Riverside and the University of Michigan have launched a national center to help the governing boards of higher education institutions stay focused on their missions of student success, equity, and long-term sustainability.

Much has happened in the two-plus months since Donald Trump reclaimed the presidency, with a start-and-stop trade war, cuts to federal research funding, and uncertainty re. the U.S. role in the Ukraine-Russia war. We asked polling and survey expert Andy Crosby, a UCR School of Public Policy professor, to weigh...

In a first-of-its-kind study from UCR, psychologists tested whether workers could reshape their self-image through a digital tool that reinforces positive beliefs. It turns out, they can.

For one whirlwind week in Washington, D.C., a select group of 18 UC Riverside public policy students found themselves in the thick of global affairs—learning firsthand how the gears of diplomacy turn in the nation’s capital. This opportunity came through the launch this academic year of the Robert Heath Global...

Organized labor, in the form of unionization, has declined dramatically in wealthy democratic countries (rich democracies) over the past 50 years. The United States is among countries showing the greatest reduction, with union membership decreasing from nearly one in three workers in the 1950s to less than one in ten...

President Donald Trump's implementations and threats of tariffs have created stock market instability, driving talk of a possible recession. We asked Jana Grittersová, a UC Riverside economist and associate professor of political science, to characterize the mindset of investors, and the relevance of various economic indicators. She is a former...

The dynamics of the court case involving the deportation of 300 Venezuelan immigrants are fast-moving. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg is weighing whether the Trump administration violated his instructions when it allowed two planes with the immigrants on board to continue to a detention center in El Salvador. Many...

UCR study finds freer, democratic societies compel more women to pursue careers