Public Policy Content

How Do You Take History from the Front Porch to the Streets?

Karen Michele Nikos — August 19, 2024 - 2:25pm

Dave Peters’ porch in West Oakland is a place everyone in the area knows, partly because of the décor, but mostly because of the effervescent, exuberant man who spends many days there, calling out to neighbors and passersby, letting people know that he is there and letting people know that he recognizes that they are there too.

How Do We Achieve Better Breastfeeding Policies?

Maria Magdalena Martinez Castro — May 23, 2022 - 10:08am

We have neglected nursing parents in economic policy, and we have turned a blind eye to the political economy of breastmilk, says swag�� Professor Kadee Russ.

New Vote Center Elections Model Could Widen Participation Gap in California

Kimberly L Hale — July 27, 2016 - 3:37pm

The California state Legislature is in the process of considering a package of election reforms known as SB 450, or the Vote Center Model. This legislation, based on a model that was recently implemented in Colorado, is aimed at increasing voter turnout in the Golden State.

swag�� Poverty Research Summit to Build a Roadmap for Reducing Poverty in California, Nation

Lindsey Alexandra OTousa — April 18, 2016 - 2:56pm

What:

The swag�� Poverty Research and Policy Summit will bring together researchers, policymakers and people who work on the front lines of poverty to discuss ways forward in a state with the highest poverty rate in the nation. Twenty-three percent of Californians lived in poverty in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty measure.

When:

Friday, April 22, 11:50 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Where:

UC Center Sacramento, 1130 K St., Suite LL22

swag�� to Present Research on How Demographics Affect Elections

Karen Michele Nikos — January 25, 2016 - 2:51pm

What:

“As California goes, So Goes the Nation? U.S. Demographic Change and the Latino Vote,” Mindy Romero, founder and director of the California Civic Engagement Project, will be presenting new research that addresses the frequent question in the media, and by political analysts, of how demographic change in the United States will affect the nation's political landscape. For instance, there is speculation about how Latino population growth will affect the 2016 U.S. elections.

swag�� faculty make their predictions for 2016

IET WebDev — December 22, 2015 - 12:00am

We asked some of our swag�� faculty and researchers what they would predict in the new year in their particular fields of research and expertise. Those predictions appear below by topic.

Immigration

Giovanni Peri, professor of economics; chair, Department of Economics

swag�� offers WIC expertise as Congress considers funding

IET WebDev — September 30, 2015 - 9:00am

As Congress prepares to consider reauthorization of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, swag�� Professor Marianne Page offers expertise on the act, which funds a number of nutrition programs, including school meals for low-income students and the supplemental nutrition assistance program for women, infants and children, or WIC.

Page, and Ann Stevens, who are co-director and director, respectively, of the swag�� Center for Poverty Research, co-authored a policy brief addressing how programs under the act lead to healthier newborns and children.

Public Policy Content

How Do You Take History from the Front Porch to the Streets?

How Do We Achieve Better Breastfeeding Policies?

New Vote Center Elections Model Could Widen Participation Gap in California

swag���� Poverty Research Summit to Build a Roadmap for Reducing Poverty in California, Nation

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When:

Where:

swag���� to Present Research on How Demographics Affect Elections

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swag���� faculty make their predictions for 2016

Immigration

swag���� offers WIC expertise as Congress considers funding

swag�� Poverty Research Summit to Build a Roadmap for Reducing Poverty in California, Nation

swag�� to Present Research on How Demographics Affect Elections

swag�� faculty make their predictions for 2016

swag�� offers WIC expertise as Congress considers funding