In the News: Movement for census awareness swells in Inland Empire

Tamara Marquez didn’t know much about the U.S. census before last year, when she applied for a job as a canvasser with the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, a nonprofit organization based in Jurupa Valley. Marquez, a senior at the University of California, Riverside, is forthcoming about why she wanted the job. Originally...

In the News: Students: Here's why YOU should fill out the Census

Riverside, California – With the National Census Day fast approaching, the University of California is asking its students to be counted. UC Riverside student and Center for Social Innovation Student Assistant, Eric Calderon, is well aware that his classmates, their lives suddenly upended by the coronavirus, may not have the U.S. census at the top...
By Nicole Freeling, UC Newsroom |

In the News: UCR organizations join together to promote the UCR Counts! Initiative

The UCR Counts! Census 2020 Complete Count Committee is a team of campus leaders who are joining together to ensure that UCR and its communities are accurately accounted for during this year’s census. The committee consists of students and faculty from ASUCR, the Center for Social Innovation, the Office of Government & Community Relations, the...

Could Democrats’ path to White House run through Inland Empire?

“It’s no exaggeration to say that (the Inland Empire and Central Valley) could determine the winner of the California primaries,” Karthick Ramakrishnan, a UC Riverside political science and public policy professor, wrote in a commentary posted on CNN.com. Billionaire and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg visited Riverside on Sunday, Jan. 5, to open...

Andrew Yang Wins Asian American Money Race in Third Quarter, But Indian Americans Back Joe Biden

Karthick Ramakrishnan, director of AAPI Data and professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside, told India-West: “Biden has one well among establishment donors. The Indian American community has high regard for him and (Vermont Senator) Bernie Sanders, who represent opposite wings of the Democratic party.” Ramakrishnan noted that both Sanders and Biden...