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Almeida Partners with Central American Universities and Colleagues to Publish Research on Social Movements and Campaigning for Progressive Parties

June 29, 2021
Professor Almeida recently co-authored an article in the journal Social Problems with colleagues from Honduras, Costa Rica, and El Salvador (Professors Eugenio Sosa, Allen Cordero Ulate, and Ricardo Argueta). The study found that those individuals participating in past social movement type...

UC Merced Community and Labor Center Study Supports Teamsters' Push to Organize Amazon

June 29, 2021
"Delegates to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convention voted overwhelmingly for a nationwide push to organize hundreds of thousands of Amazon's warehouse and delivery workers, a formidable task given the e-commerce behemoth's fierce antiunion stance. The new effort is...

Central Valley Caravan to Provide Labor Rights Information to Farmworkers

June 24, 2021
Farmworkers can learn more about their labor rights and workplace safety protections as a mobile informational caravan makes multiple stops across the Central Valley this weekend. UC Merced's Community and Labor Center is one of several partners involved in the outreach effort being launched by the...

Professor Laura Hamilton On How Black Women Owe More in Student Debt than White Women

June 18, 2021
"In the United States, Women owe the majority of the outstanding $1.7 trillion dollars in student loans. As of 2020, women held almost $929 billion in outstanding student debt.  And according to a new report from The American Association of University Women, Black women carry about 20...

Professor Zulema Valdez On How the Virus Unraveled Hispanic American Families

June 18, 2021
"The coronavirus spreads very quickly within households, and so close ties among extended households have emerged as detrimental factors for Hispanic Americans. A Health Affairs study also found that Hispanic Californians were eight times as likely as white residents to live in a 'high...

Professor Laura Hamilton On What Americans Would Get From Student Debt Forgiveness

June 14, 2021
A recent brief by the Roosevelt Institute analyzed how $50,000 of student debt forgiveness would impact household wealth and argues that wealth paints a more complete picture of borrowers' financial status and more accurately accounts for racial disparities. "We were...

Sociology Ph.D Candidate Maria Duenas Receives Honorable Mention

June 10, 2021
Maria's second year paper titled "Discursive Interactions: Racial Ideologies, Discourses, and Socialization in Latinx Families," won Honorable Mention in the Society for the Study of Social Problems Racial and Ethnic Minorites Division's Student Paper Competition. Please join...

Professor Eaton, Hamilton, and Co-authors Speak on Student Debt Cancellation

June 10, 2021
Charlie Eaton, Laura Hamilton, and co-authors Adam Goldstein and Fred Wherry show that student debt cancellation is progressive and central to building the Black middle class. Read about it in the Roosevelt Institute brief. 

Professor Laura Hamilton On How Privatization of Universities Has Devastating Consequences for Racial and Social Equity

June 7, 2021
"The University of California system offers an ideal case to study intra-system resource distribution. In most states, regional universities make the largest contributions to equity and diversity for state residents, while flagship research universities are mostly exempt from this...

Research Study Findings Support Allegations Against Apollo Global Management Inc.

May 21, 2021
From the Bloomberg article:  Apollo Global Management Inc. is known for its no-holds-barred deal making. But not long ago, the private equity firm pitched itself to pension funds and other wealthy institutions as an emerging force in "impact" investing, the movement to make money...

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