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Oct 02, 2009

Verbatim — Same-sex marriages, Alzheimer's, movie rentals and unemployment

UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection:
 
Gates"Even though in 2008 there were only a few states where you could get legally married, a large portion of same-sex couples either were married or chose to use that term."
 
— Senior research fellow Gary Gates, working at the School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, discusses the fact that recent U.S. census data shows almost 150,000 gay and lesbian couples reported that they were married, when, in fact, only around 100,000 such marriages were estimated to have occurred last year. Gates is quoted in a Sept. 22 Associated Press story.
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Nickelsburg“Now that houses are much more affordable and the market has stabilized in most parts of California, we're expecting that to provide the impetus for some new construction. … We're not going to get back to the boom level of 2006, but we do expect the bleeding in that industry to stop.”
 
— Jerry Nickelsburg, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, discusses how the growing construction industry in California could provide some relief from the fiscal woes of the current recession. Nickelsburg was quoted in a Sept.19 article about San Diego’s rising unemployment rate in the San Diego Union Tribune.
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Lavarreda"The driver is employment-based coverage. … When you have jobs with good health benefits and when people are able to afford insurance benefits, you get higher rates of job-based coverage."
 
—Shana Alex Lavarreda, director of health insurance studies at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, states in a Sept. 21 Riverside Press-Enterprise article why Inland Empire jobs, which are largely blue-collar, are less likely to offer health insurance benefits. 
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Cole"It takes many years to develop and test prevention methods so we have to act now. We can only hope that there are governments that are not too short-sighted or cognitively-impaired to generate the political will to make primary prevention happen."
 
—Greg M. Cole, associate director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the Geffen School of Medicine, explains the need for governments to take preventative measures in treating diseases. Cole was quoted in a Sept. 21 HealthDay article discussing the projected growth of dementia and Alzheimer’s around the world.  
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Sood"I think that they are really in trouble. … It’s hard to believe it’s all happened so fast."
 
—Sanjay Sood, an assistant professor of marketing at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, comments in a Sept. 16 Fort Worth Star-Telegram article on the rapid decline of former movie rental juggernaut Blockbuster. The chain is expected to close nearly 960 stores by the end of 2010.
 
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