Video: UC Berkeley Labor Center teach-in focuses on economic inequality
On Wednesday April 4 there was an economic inequality conference in Lewis Hall on UC Berkeley’s campus.
UC students call on state legislator to support workers’ rights legislation
UC students participated in a statewide call-in on Tuesday to California Senator Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, to push legislation that would expand the rights of California’s domestic workers. The call-in proceeded after a press conference at UC San Diego, where the UC Student Association and the California Domestic Workers Coalition Read More…
UC Berkeley Labor Center teach-in focuses on economic inequality
A teach-in hosted by the UC Berkeley Labor Center Wednesday entitled “Economic Inequality Teach In: Causes, Consequences and Solutions,” featured some of the campus’s prominent economic and political thinkers and social justice activists analyzing the causes and consequences of injustices that continue to exist. Solutions to growing economic inequality include Read More…
Income inequality slide show projected onto Anna Head complex
For the past couple weeks, a slide show projection on the Anna Head West student housing project currently under construction has drawn attention with its “Occupy the Wall (across the) Street” message. UC Berkeley Labor Center staff members first projected a slide show containing charts, data, quotes and more information Read More…
Study indicates early child care benefits greatly outweigh costs
A recently released study from the UC Berkeley Labor Center holds that the returns from public investment in early child care and education far outweigh the costs — findings that illustrate the necessity of state financing for such programs during a recession, public policy analysts said. The study — authored Read More…
Up to 92 percent of Californians under 65 covered by Obamacare, study says
Nine out of 10 Californians under the age of 65 will receive health coverage by 2019 with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, informally known as Obamacare, according to a study by the UC Berkeley Labor Center and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Researchers from the centers Read More…