UCLA faculty experts advisory: Obama sends budget to Congress
President Obama has sent Congress his campaign-year budget, which calls for higher taxes on the wealthy and new spending on education and transportation. Republicans are already attacking the plan and vowing to fight the tax hikes. UCLA has experts.
Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, comments regularly on the local, national and international economies. He is also the co-creator of the Ceridian–UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index, which tracks fuel purchases at interstate truck stops as a means of predicting economic changes in the United States.
Media contact:
Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu
Lee Ohanian, professor of economics, is an expert in macroeconomic theory and policy, business cycles and growth, and the stock market and financial markets.
Media contacts:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Roger Farmer, professor and chair of economics, specializes in the role of market psychology on economic activity and is the author of "How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies" (2010).
Media contact:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Chris Tilly, director of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, is an expert on labor markets and the relationship between public policies and the creation of jobs.
Media contact:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Jerry Nickelsburg, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, is an expert on the national and California economies.
Media contact:
Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu
POLITICS & CONGRESS
Lynn Vavreck, associate professor of political science, studies political campaigns, with an emphasis on how the state of the economy and candidate behavior affect voters. She is conducting ongoing survey research and will be blogging regularly from the campaign trail until Election Day.
Media contacts:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs and a professor of political science and public policy, studies racial and ethnic politics, the mass media, and electoral behavior.
Stanley Paul | 310-206-0159 | paul@publicaffairs.ucla.edu
Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu
Tim Groeling, associate professor and chair of communication studies, is an expert on political communications and new media. He is the author of the 2010 book "When Politicians Attack: Party Discipline and the Media," which addresses the 2012 campaign and President Obama's prospects for reelection.
Media contacts:
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Mark Peterson, professor of public policy and political science, specializes in the interactions among the presidency, Congress and interest groups.
Media contact:
Stanley Paul | 310-206-0159 | paul@publicaffairs.ucla.edu
Mark Sawyer, associate professor of political science and director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, specializes in racial politics and the role of young voters in local, state and national elections.
Media contacts:
Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
