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Campus, city, state and national officials have begun to plan census outreach efforts and allocate resources towards the 2020 count, seeking to ensure resources for hard-to-count populations in enumeration.

Democratic Party officials and presidential candidates alike stressed unity at the 2019 summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, in downtown San Francisco. At the same time, the meeting saw considerable rifts between officials and activists.

A 2018 study co-authored by Anna Godøy, research economist at the UC Berkeley Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, found that when wages increase, there is little to no impact on job loss or growth.

Although BNP Paribas has severed its financing relationship with for-profit prison corporations, the company continues to facilitate investments in these companies from its clientele.

Known as the College for All Act, the bill would be paid for by a tax on Wall Street speculation, according to a press release from Sanders’ office.

A bill introduced to the U.S. Senate by Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Kamala Harris, D-Calif.; and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., seeks to help international students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, to work in the United States after the completion of their advanced degrees, according to a press release sent out by Durbin on Thursday.

According to the press release, HHS has previously extended the UCSF contract multiple times and launched a review of HHS research projects using human fetal tissue from elective abortions in September 2018. The last extension ended Wednesday.

UC Berkeley School of Law Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky has spoken out against the recent Alabama abortion ban, describing it as an opportunity for conservatives to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The recent release of a list of suspects’ names in sexual abuse cases involving the Boy Scouts of America will likely to lead to an influx of cases against the organization in the near future.

City of Berkeley officials have condemned President Donald Trump’s statement that he is “considering” releasing immigrants detained at the U.S.-Mexico border into sanctuary cities.