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University of California-Riverside

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    September 20, 2012

    Foreclosures Crisis' Effect on the Election Could Be Deeper Than Just Policy Debate

    The 2012 general election will be the first since the national rate of mortgage delinquencies rose above 10 percent. While it seems the fever broke in early 2010, when nearly 15 percent of home loans were past due, the country's foreclosure rate is still twice as high as it was pre-recession.And for ... More >>

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    August 24, 2012

    More Foreclosures in a Community Means Lower Voter Turnout, Says Study

    History will eventually figure out the social implications of the foreclosure crisis -- its longterm effect on the wealth gap between minorities and white people, its role in gentrification, whether it permanently alters the popular conception of the America Dream, etc.Some early returns are in. A s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Minhaz Kahn, DREAM Act Eligible Student, Spared Deportation -- For Now

    No deportation for Minhaz Kahn. But others might not be so lucky. ​A DREAM-Act-eligible recent college grad won reprieve on his deportation case earlier this week, yet the celebration ends there. San Francisco-based immigration officials warned attorneys that not all DREAM Act-eligible immigrants ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Minhaz Kahn, DREAM Act-Eligible Neuroscience Grad, Set For Deportation

    Minhaz Kahn is facing deportation on November 18. ​Federal immigration officials in San Francisco are ignoring a June memo from immigration authorities that deprioritizes deportation immigrants who came into the country as kids. In the most recent case, it's affecting a UC-Riverside neuroscie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Benefit Held for Stafone Jackson, Star Athlete and Swim Coach Who Drowned

    Stafone Jackson, star athlete and student​ICHI Sushi on Mission Street will donate a percentage of dinner proceeds tonight to the family of Stafone Jackson, a 20-year-old graduate of Mission High School who tragically drowned while camping last month. According to news reports, Jackson d ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2009

    Race to Fame

    W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.

  • News

    August 30, 2006

    Looted

    How an eccentric architect with a penchant for pre-Columbian relics rocked the antiquities world and became the de Young Museum's most mysterious donor

  • News

    April 7, 2004

    Sex and the Single Psychologist

    Should Dr. Al Cooper's fuzzy data and controversial subject stop him from becoming a media darling -- or getting a date?

  • News

    March 13, 2002

    Missed Interpretation

    Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

  • News

    July 2, 1997

    Planet Wars

    Last year, two Bay Area astronomers said they had discovered planets outside our solar system and became instant media celebrities. Now, Paul Butler and Geoff Marcy face prominent scientific challengers who contend some of the new planets are nothing but

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