California Policy Lab

UC Berkeley Alumni, parents, students, faculty, staff, and friends are coming together today to support #CalBigGive. If you’re participating, consider supporting the California Policy Lab: capolicylab.org/donate/ Our team includes many UC Berkeley alumni — including Alissa Skog, who shares why the California Policy Lab’s work matters to her.

Alumni, parents, students, faculty, staff, and friends are coming together today to support Big Give, the University of California, Berkeley's annual day of giving. If you’re participating in Big Give today, we hope you’ll consider supporting the California Policy Lab: capolicylab.org/donate/ Our team includes many UC Berkeley alumni — including Justin Rausa who shares why the California Policy Lab’s work matters to him #CalBigGive

NEWS: The California Credit Dashboard was updated with data through Q4, 2025 today. The updated data show diverging trends for Californians, with a few getting ahead (esp. in the Bay Area), but many also falling behind on their bills: capolicylab.org/news/californi…

Proud to see that LA County's Homelessness Prevention Unit, which uses our predictive model, is cited as a model homelessness prevention strategy in this NYT OpEd: nytimes.com/2026/02/27/opi…

How can AI be used to better understand and respond to urgent social challenges like homelessness? Janey Rountree, executive director of California Policy Lab's UCLA site, is one of the panelists for this March 12th Webinar - registration is now open: zoom.us/webinar/regist…

First review for this Researcher role is this Friday, Feb 27th.

What do we know about Californians and their $ health? CPL research and hosted research projects focus on a range of topics, including: student debt, Buy Now Pay Later loans, debt collection, tax credits, household mobility, SNAP's impact on finances, and more: capolicylab.org/topics/measuri…

Happening tonight (Feb 18th) at 5pm, in Sacramento. Register: addevent.com/event/zr392y9m… "The riveting documentary showcases what the filmmakers learned as they traveled more than 40,000 miles around the country to learn how communities were successfully tackling homelessness."

#HiringAlert: The California Policy Lab is hiring for a mid- or advanced-career Researcher, focused on labor economics. First review is Feb 27th, position can be hybrid in Los Angeles, or remote. Full posting: capolicylab.org/careers/resear… #EconTwitter

#HiringAlert: The California Policy Lab is hiring for a mid- or advanced-career Researcher, focused on labor economics. First review is Feb 27th, position can be hybrid in Los Angeles, or remote. Full posting: capolicylab.org/careers/resear… #EconJobs

CPL update: Meet 3 new CPL staff members and new research on: ->racial disparities in police searches in California ->Prop 36 update for December ->the LPIE exemption college students can use to qualify for #CalFresh ->housing vouchers in Sonoma County ->student loan repayment capolicylab.org/newsletter/cal…

The California Policy Lab is thrilled to be selected as an AI at Work Awardee from @schmidtsciences. CPL’s research, led by @ReviseNRetweet, will investigate whether existing job training programs in California can help workers pursue AI-specific training to help them adjust to changes in the job market that are driven by AI.

"People who start work in a recession tend to earn less over the course of their careers, von Wachter’s research found, making for more divorces, smaller families, and worse health." Prof. @TillvonWachter, faculty director of CPL's UCLA site, was interviewed on Marketplace: marketplace.org/story/2026/01/…

In 2019, Sonoma County overhauled its system for awarding Housing Choice Vouchers and more than 12k people signed up for a new lottery. A new study (in Housing Policy Debate) focuses on the outcomes of that lottery and the people who were selected to receive a voucher: capolicylab.org/mitigating-the…

"The idea is, can you reach people at that critical moment and redirect their pathway out of homelessness?" Janey Rountree spoke with KNX News about the California Policy Lab's work with LA County to predict and prevent homelessness in this "2025 in the news" highlight. Learn more about the HPU: capolicylab.org/early-outcomes…

As @CAPolicyLab’s Janey Rountree sees it, preventing homelessness requires 2 things: access to the right data and the political will to act. AI can provide the data part. buff.ly/XLXozOc

We're thrilled to share these 7 numbers reflecting our 2025. Want to learn more? Visit our Year in Review: capolicylab.org/news/californi…

The new fact sheet is on CPL's website: capolicylab.org/news/new-analy…

"A new analysis from the University of California’s nonpartisan California Policy Lab shows the majority of student loans in the U.S. are not actively being repaid, and one in four loans that are being paid are in delinquency." sacbee.com/news/politics-… #StudentDebt #Caleg