Journalists from broadcast, cable, print, and online sources turn to Bedrosian faculty and student researchers for their expertise, as resources to inform complex policy issues. Here are links to some of the pieces in which our faculty are quoted.
Richard Green quoted by LAist on how seniors are the fastest growing unhoused population. The pandemic exacerbated Southern California’s affordability crisis for renters because people are moving less.
Pamela Clouser McCann co-authored a piece written for the Washington Post‘s Monkey Cage policy analysis column. Our research finds that if the Supreme Court were to invalidate either the EPA’s authority or the vaccine mandate under this doctrine, it might unravel nearly every major law Congress has passed since World War Read more…
FiveThirtyEight quoted redistricting research co-authored by Christian Grose. Researchers at the University of Southern California found that when California voters were told the state uses independent commissions (which it does) and the process was explained to them, 73% of respondents thought the process was fair. But when they were told the Read more…
Quoted by LAist, Erroll Southers says there are different factions of the Oath Keepers, with some more anti-government than others, Southers said, but he argued that doesn’t excuse the Riverside County sheriff’s defense of the group. “To be currently serving in a law enforcement position and to defend a group Read more…
Across the state, organizers are banding together to make sure new congressional, legislative and local districts lead to diverse representation. The track record of the Citizens Redistricting Commission is mixed, according to two recent studies. One of the studies, The California Citizens Redistricting Commission: Fair Maps, Voting Rights, and Diversity, Read more…
Jody Armour interviewed by Fox News affiliate KTTV regarding parole decision for Sirhan Sirhan who has been incarcerated for 50 years for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Armour believes the push towards prison reform in Los Angeles County will promote racial justice for marginalized groups, and that the Read more…
KCRW-FM and the Los Angeles Sentinel featured Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro of the USC Dornsife College as the co-author of a new report detailing steps to dismantle institutional anti-Black racism in Los Angeles. “The Path to Justice Runs through Equity: Ending Anti-Black Racism in Los Angeles” contains recommendations in seven critical areas that are Read more…
Abby K. Wood of the USC Gould School was interviewed live on KABC-TV regarding the gubernatorial recall election. “If you want to keep the governor in office but think, ‘If my side doesn’t win, I want a say in who replaces him,’ then you should answer question 2. It will Read more…
CBS News Chicago affiliate WBBM-TV quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on how cash bail is not to blame for the spike in violent crime. “Cash bail can make the criminal justice system seem “even less morally credible” by seemingly imposing a “special tax on poor people, because if Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured Christian Grose of the USC Dornsife College on what the new census data mean for California redistricting. “I do think the far north might be a place that you would see a district go away. You’ve got two districts right now in the far northern part of the Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Christian Grose of the USC Dornsife College on the debate between Republican gubernatorial candidates. “If I had to pick a front-runner, I think Kevin Faulconer is probably the strongest candidate but there are others who were not on the debate stage last night [at Read more…
LAist featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School and Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro of the USC Dornsife College on the university’s recent report on campus safety and racial profiling. Additional coverage was found in Campus Safety Magazine. The report recommends a new vision for public safety at USC, and it also Read more…
KNX 1070 AM and Spectrum News 1 featured research by Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on how much L.A. County renters currently owe in back rent. “It was disproportionately renters who were thrown out of work. And while a lot of federal programs helped, getting a check to people, it wasn’t Read more…
KPCC-FM featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School and Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro of the USC Dornsife College as they discussed the university’s report on recommendations from the Department of Public Safety Community Advisory Board — which they co-chaired — regarding campus safety and racial profiling. Members of the advisory board called for a Read more…
The Conversation recently published an article written by David Sloane on the joy and grief many of us will experience as we attempt to return to pre-pandemic life. They did not get to hold hands at the hospital, have mourning hours with visitors and family, or stand above the grave Read more…
KCRW-FM featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the federal trial of political donor Ed Buck, who is charged with supplying methamphetamine that killed two men in his apartment. Armour says he agrees with activists like Jasmyne Cannick who argued that Buck’s power and privilege protected him from being Read more…
Jody Armour was interviewed live by Claudia Peschiutta of KNX 1070-AM radio on the legal liability of the city and the Los Angeles Police Department after detonating fireworks in a residential neighborhood. “It sounds like almost the definition of carelessness that I would bring up in a classroom hypothetical with Read more…
Marketplace quoted Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on why people making minimum wage cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country. According to Green, two things are playing out in different ways across the country: Housing shortages drive prices higher, and minimum wages don’t always keep pace. Richard Read more…
NBC News Palm Springs affiliate KMIR-TV featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the U.S. Capitol Police opening offices in two states outside of Washington, D.C. which are California and Florida. California being selected as a field office location may come to a surprise to some, but not experts Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on rising house prices being tied to people not moving. “In California, we have a law that encourages that behavior. It’s Proposition 13, which basically limits how much property taxes can go up as long as you live in that Read more…
Seva Rodnyansky was interviewed on KPCC AirTalk with Larry Mantle discussing domestic migration in southern California. “As the population migrates to rural areas, there may be an inadequate infrastructure which creates an ecological fragility. More fires, more congestion, etc….” Seva Rodnyansky Tweet Listen here
KCRW-FM interviewed Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on how the pandemic and the stay-at-home orders supercharged the growth of QAnon. Covid 19 and the stay home orders became what I call the extremist ideological trifecta. Erroll Southers Tweet Listen here
Seva Rodnyansky was quoted in Los Angeles Times article about populations moving around and outside California. “The areas that are bordering Sacramento are more built up, but places that are farther up in the highways and valleys, they’re as forested and as densely green as any,” said Seva Rodnyansky, assistant Read more…
Jody Armour of the USC Gould School was featured by Spectrum News 1 on the debate over critical race theory. “Critical race theory means a lot of things to a lot of people now. It’s kind of a catchphrase that is contested as part of a political contest between vying Read more…
Erroll Southers was featured in a live news segment with Colleen Williams, KNBC News at 5, on the sentencing of Derek Chauvin. “I think the judge’s sentence fell approximately where we thought it would fall, especially if you look at Minnesota precedence for the same exact crime. Between 2014 and Read more…