Product Description: The United States spends billions of dollars annually on social and economic policies aimed at improving the lives of its citizens, but the health consequences associated with these policies are rarely considered. In Making Americans Healthier, a group of multidisciplinary experts shows how social and economic policies seemingly unrelated to medical well-being have dramatic consequences for the health of the American people...read more

Product Description: Over the last three decades, large-scale economic developments, such as technological change, the decline in unionization, and changing skill requirements, have exacted their biggest toll on low-wage workers. These workers often possess few marketable skills and few resources with which to support themselves during periods of economic transition...read more

Product Description: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted a Long-Term Family Self-Sufficiency Plan (LTFSS) on November 16, 1999. The LTFSS envisions 46 interrelated projects with the common goal of promoting sustained self-sufficiency for California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act of 1997 (CalWORKs) families, for former CalWORKs families, and for other low-income families in Los Angeles County...read more

Product Description: Can the downward trend in earnings losses experienced by injured workers in California during the 1990s be traced to the state's improved economic conditions? The latest in a series of RAND reports on workers' compensation confirms that, despite some improvements in the mid-1990s, benefits in the state were still inadequate...read more

Product Description: A revealing and surprising new study on immigration and the economy.

Product Description: Studies the employment experiences of aerospace workers in a shrinking defense industry.

Product Description: This report contains the summaries of a three-part project that investigated the effects of declining defense budgets on California's economy.