2013-05-17T16:41:45Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/pacific-states.html http://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2012/06/21/prisoner-reentry-public-health.html Jun 21, 2012 Jun 21, 2012

In this June 2012 Congressional Briefing, Lois Davis discusses the health care needs of prisoners who reenter the general population; the roles that health care providers, other social services, and family members play in successful reentry; and recommendations for improving access to care for this population in the current fiscal environment.

http://www.rand.org/jie/centers/workplace-health-safety/projects/cal-osha-inspections.html Apr 2, 2012 Apr 2, 2012

California's Occupational Safety and Health Administration conducts a higher percentage of accident investigations than the federal agency does. Should Cal-OSHA allocate inspection resources differently among different types of inspections and among different types of workplaces?

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/audio/2012/01/24/californias-prisoners-dilemma.html Jan 24, 2012 Jan 24, 2012

At this January 2012 Policy Forum, experts discuss the public health implications of a U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce the prison population by more than 30,000.

http://www.rand.orghttp://lasurvey.rand.org.html Jan 23, 2012 Jan 23, 2012

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) studies adults, teens, children, and neighborhoods in Los Angeles County. Survey data were collected in 2000-2001 and 2006-2008 and are available to researchers for public use.

http://www.rand.orghttp://ca.rand.org/.html Nov 17, 2011 Nov 17, 2011

RAND California contains statistics on unemployment, crime rates, school district expenditures, dropout and completion rates, energy consumption, air quality, and more. Much of the data is available at the national, state, county, and city levels.

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/audio/2009/10/28/public-safety-after-bratton.html Aug 19, 2011 Aug 19, 2011

Just days before the end of his tenure, Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton joined Greg Ridgeway, director of the RAND Safety and Justice Program, in this dialogue about the effect of mounting constraints on city and state resources and the state of public safety in Los Angeles and California.

http://www.rand.org/jie/projects/los-angeles-mwd-plan.html Jun 9, 2011 Jun 9, 2011

The 2010 Integrated Resource Plan Update developed by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District (MWD) includes a preferred resource mix as well as an adaptive management approach to monitor key trends and modify the resource mix as necessary. RAND helped the MWD determine which trends are most useful to monitor.

http://www.rand.org/jie/projects/metropolitan-water-blue-ribbon-commission.html Jun 9, 2011 Jun 9, 2011

The Southern California Metropolitan Water District sought advice determining which trends are most useful to monitor to implement its adaptive management strategy. RAND supported Metropolitan's Blue Ribbon Commission to develop recommendations for a new business model to help the agency meet its goals over the next fifty years.

http://www.rand.org/labor/CalWORKs.html Sep 15, 2010 Sep 15, 2010

RAND conducted an evaluation of California's implementation of welfare reform under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. The project was conducted under contract from the California Department of Social Services.

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2010/07/12/marijuana_legalization.html Jul 12, 2010 Jul 12, 2010

A voter initiative to legalize marijuana has qualified for the November 2010 ballot in California. In this July 12, 2010, Congressional Briefing, the codirector of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center discusses the projected revenues, costs, and effects on price and use that may come from legalizing, regulating, and taxing marijuana in California.

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2010/04/28/police_as_an_investment.html Apr 28, 2010 Apr 28, 2010

On October 28, 2009, during his last week in office, Bratton visited RAND's headquarters campus in Santa Monica. He and Ridgeway discussed Bratton's tenure, achievements, and obstacles to success, as well as RAND's impact on policing in Los Angeles.

http://www.rand.org/health/projects/air-pollution-in-california.html Mar 2, 2010 Mar 2, 2010

California's dirty air caused more than $193 million in hospital-based medical care from 2005 to 2007 as people sought help for problems such as asthma and pneumonia that are triggered by elevated pollution levels.

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2009/08/10/reparable_harm.html Aug 10, 2009 Aug 10, 2009

<p>In this Congressional Briefing held on August 10, 2009, Rebecca Kilburn, director of the Promising Practices Network on Children, Families and Communities and of RAND Child Policy, discusses the disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California.</p>

http://www.rand.org/jie/centers/workplace-health-safety/projects/injury-calif-public-safety-employees.html Nov 19, 2008 Nov 19, 2008

Public safety officers have much higher incidence and cost of injuries that result in disability retirement than other public employees. RAND research helped the Commission on Health and Safety Workers' Compensation and the California legislature in their efforts to provide adequate workers' compensation and disability benefits.

http://www.rand.org/blog/2012/09/farsighted-leadership-in-a-shortsighted-world-9-issues.html Sep 24, 2012 Sep 24, 2012

For nearly 65 years, RAND has cultivated the farsighted perspectives required to address the big, long-term public policy issues. In an effort to look beyond the 2012 U.S. election and promote &ldquo;farsighted leadership in a shortsighted world,&rdquo; the latest edition of the RAND Corporation’s magazine offers commentaries that transcend partisan rhetoric and foster policies that both presidential candidates could well accept.

http://www.rand.org/blog/2013/04/ask-me-anything-beau-kilmer-answers-drug-policy-questions.html Apr 26, 2013 Apr 26, 2013

Beau Kilmer, co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center and coauthor of <em>Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know,</em> hosted an &ldquo;Ask Me Anything&rdquo; (AMA) session on Reddit this week. He fielded questions from participants on a variety of drug policy issues.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2000/09/27/LAT.html Sep 27, 2000 Sep 27, 2000

Published commentary by RAND staff.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2002/09/30/ST.html Sep 30, 2002 Sep 30, 2002

Published commentary by RAND staff

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2003/01/02/SDUT.html Jan 2, 2003 Jan 2, 2003

Now that California schools have access to up to $550 million in new assistance annually under Proposition 49 to fund after-school programs, wise choices need to be made to ensure the money will be used for programs that give children the maximum benefit, writes Megan Beckett in an commentary.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2003/01/30/OCR.html Jan 30, 2003 Jan 30, 2003

As Florida experience shows, targets of new levy on services have clout and will use it, writes Robert Levine in an commentary.