California Policy Workshop

Dr. Birgeneau speaking on "Public Higher Education, Income Inequality and the Future of America".

This is a video about how considering the best fiscal policy for a state can be approached as posing the same questions as would be relevant for any government. For instance, should any government prefer an ideal consumption tax to an ideal income tax? This talk is presented by Darien Shanske who holds a J.D. from Stanford School of Law, a Ph.D from UC Berkley in Rhetoric, an M.A. from McGill University in Philosophy, and a B.A. from Colombia University.

A video about how water security is the reliable availability of an acceptable quantity & quality of water for health, livelihoods and production, coupled with an acceptable level of water-related risks.

Video featuring Sascha von Meier, Co-Director, Electric Grid Research, California Institute for Energy and Environment. She spoke at the UC Center Sacramento about climate change, the transition to a carbon-neutral electricity supply and the integration of high levels of distributed and intermittent resources such as solar and wind power and the serious coordination challenges to the legacy electric grid.

Panel discussion explaining the Affordable Care Act. Weintraub will moderate a panel of plain-speaking experts to explain the act's implications for middle-income people who will be buying their own insurance, low-income Californians who will gain access to Medi-Cal, and employers who will be buying coverage for their workers or sending them into the new Health Benefits Exchange.

A video about social networking websites that are changing the way people are interacting with the world. Facebook is the most popular social networking website and most visited website in the world. While the world changes, this presents interesting questions for how these type of interactions affect the political sphere.

A video introducing the physics of the Sun and its role in governing Earth’s climate and the public’s understanding of climate change.

In this lecture by Gerald F. Kominiski, we learn how the new federal health care law will affect Californians. Kominiski is a

professor of Health Policy and Management and director of the Center for Health Policy Research in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

A video about California changing from a state that was overwhelmingly white to one in which a majority of students in the public schools is Latino. It simultaneously changed from a “golden” state of opportunity to one that has struggled to deliver on its promise to provide a high quality education for its youth.

A video about Lake Tahoe and the State of the Lake Report, is an annual summary of how natural variability, long term change and human activity have affected the lake’s clarity, physics, chemistry and biology.