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8 inaugural recipients to be feted

8 inaugural recipients to be feted

Parents who make a pact to delay giving their children smartphones until 14 improve the mental health of the group as a whole, a study has suggested

SOLE Fellows

Moving healthcare upstream sounds like progress. But earlier isn't necessarily better.

Deadly failures in both parental and foster care prompted a dramatic shift, but the data tells a more complicated story about whether the county has gone too far.

Edwin Mills Best Paper Award

Records compiled under a new state law provide more insight into how children were harmed, but leave some questions about the state's child welfare agency unanswered.

As extreme heat becomes more frequent and intense across California, knowing which communities are struggling and what kind of help they need is increasingly important for protecting public health. A ...

Background: Safe passage interventions aim to enhance public safety and improve access to community resources, including public parks, in underserved communities. However, no studies have directly com...

Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.

Research team analyzed 11,500 neighborhoods over a decade

Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of...

State and federal cuts could push California's uninsured rate to nearly 15% by 2030 — hitting immigrants and low-income families hardest. Watch the new CalMatters documentary.

Young kids shouldn’t have screen time, a new report warns. But who can afford to follow that advice?

Though some school districts are faring better than others, external factors outside of a district’s control have exacerbated declining enrollment across Southern California.

Ming D. Leung

Associate Professor of Economics

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Two new laws aim to protect students from extreme heat — but California still won't fund the air conditioning schools actually need.

The ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award is presented annually to an ASA member for the best single book published in the two calendar years preceding the

The House passed the KIDS Act, a major online safety bill aimed at protecting minors. Here's what the legislation would do, what critics say it's missing, and what experts want parents to know.

While the “worst of the worst” was already part of the lexicon of immigration enforcement before Donald Trump, his administration has routinely wielded it as a tool for advancing a radical, white-nati...

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A proposed rule change could expose more Americans to higher doses of radiation from nuclear facilities

Since the one-child policy was scrapped 10 years ago, China now has too few births

The former transportation secretary’s ordeal, in which his 4-year-old twins were taken into forensic interviews based on a false anonymous tip, is not as rare as it should be.

“We should really think about the potential consequences of a really large-scale decline in employment,” UC Irvine economist David Neumark told Fortune.