Articles

Anthropology grad student Adonia Lugo promotes bicycle culture in Southern California - Featured story about a COPC Community Scholar and her work [ Read Now ]

Motivating Students for College - by Deirdre Newman [ Read Now ]

This is the first of a series of stories that explore how a widening divide (the gap between costs of living and incomes) in Orange County's economy is impacting its middle class households, families and communities. These articles will offer readers an "everyday" perspective about this growing problem, and build upon the original study, "The Orange Crush: Squeezing Orange County's Middle Class" produced by John Hipp, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine.

Living Wage Laws: Providing Community Benefits that Value Orange County’s Working Families by Deirdre Newman [ Read Now ]