Social Impact

New analysis of marginalized communities in Los Angeles County by the USC Dornsife Program for Environmental and Regional Equity reveals those most at risk of devastating fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. [4 min read]

Social Impact

USC Dornsife’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity teams with USC Price School of Public Policy and the California Endowment for a town hall talk on the intersecting role of labor, business, education and philanthropy.

Social Impact

The United States is at historic levels of income inequality. What will it take to balance the scales between low-income workers and the top 1 percent?

Faculty

USC Dornsife professors of economics, history, and American studies and ethnicity offer scholarly opinions on how Los Angeles can tackle its unsustainable traffic problem.

Faculty

No one is left out of the nation’s biggest solar feed-in tariff program after PERE steps in.

Faculty

Residents in low-income communities in Los Angeles County are benefiting from the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity. By producing critical research, the program is becoming a statewide model for environmental justice.

Faculty

Manuel Pastor, professor of American studies and ethnicity in USC Dornsife, has received the 2012 Wally Marks Changemaker Award for his outstanding work in the Los Angeles community.

Social Impact

How will society be transformed by the presence, skills and actions of immigrants? USC College has become the convening place for academic, community and public policy leaders to conduct and discuss research on the changing landscape of Los Angeles and the nation.