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Berkeley Haas experts provide their views on where the system broke down and whether there may be broader trouble brewing.
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New study provides insight on what might be at the heart of some of society’s most vexing arguments. 
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Local municipalities now have a road map to pursue housing reform.
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Many workers essential to keeping the state running and providing crucial services are struggling to make ends meet, per a new report released by the UC Berkeley Labor Center.
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Restaurants, retail stores and other small businesses generally do not cut jobs and may actually benefit when governments raise minimum pay.
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When it comes to the water side of 30x30, most programs focus primarily on conservation of oceans, but a new study by researchers argues that freshwater ecosystems must not be neglected.
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Tens of millions of years of history unfold among the movable shelves of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. 
Andrea Gomez and Adina Lewis is lab setting
The human brain has an immense power to change. Andrea Gomez wants to know how cells and molecules in the brain enable that flexibility and change— called brain plasticity.
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Professor Ulrike Malmendier discusses her role as a top economic expert in Europe.
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Professor Sonia Katyal won a Dukeminier Award for her article “The Gender Panopticon: AI, Gender, and Design Justice".
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By July 1, California’s Reparations Task Force must finish its report on the harms African Americans have faced since California became a state in 1850 and recommend how the state should repair the damage for all descendants of enslaved people now residing here.
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Professor Deirdre K. Mulligan has been tapped to join the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for Policy.
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A panel discussion with four leading economists about what it’ll take to rebuild Ukraine’s infrastructure, education systems and institutions.
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California voters are giving President Joe Biden his highest ratings since mid-2021, but more Republican voters are breaking with former President Donald Trump and turning to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a new Berkeley IGS Poll.
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Berkeley News spoke with Maslach about her new book, what that pandemic revealed about work, and when to walk away.
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As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, researchers warn that ongoing economic fallout may fuel a new wave of land acquisitions across the globe.