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Fifty years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the spirit of that moment and movement lives on in the fast-food workers who, since beginning in New York in November, have held rolling one-day strikes at big-name chains in different cities to call for better wages and conditions. The restaurant industry employs more than 4 million fast-food workers in the United States today — or more people than live in Los Angeles — many of them earning as little…

It has been a wonderful experience and privilege hosting 40 representatives from the House Assembly of Delta, Nigeria for the Goldman School of Public Policy.  The Global and Executive Programs developed a two week program, bringing in faculty members and practitioners to provide their insight in the areas of leadership, sustainable development, poverty alleviation, city planning, education, food security, and agriculture.  The goal of this program was to provide snapshots of innovation in California and enable  the legislators…

Hotter weather and increasingly extreme rainfall patterns will exacerbate both interpersonal and group conflicts, finds a study by Professor Solomon Hsiang entitled, "Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict." The study and accompanying article was published in the journal Science.