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AI is booming on the West Coast. So why is unemployment so high there? — and more UCLA media
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CNN Business reported on the correlation between AI’s historic investor surge and spikes in unemployment.
Economist Ben Hyman, a senior researcher at the California Policy Lab at UCLA, said unemployment claims are rising in California “among workers who were formerly in highly AI-exposed occupations, especially those who are advanced-degree holders in the Bay Area and in technology-adjacent sectors.”
Well, expanding access to higher education … it’s a first-of-its-kind partnership — UCLA and the SoLa Foundation are bringing free university courses straight to South LA.
A 2025 study from UCLA Health found that the number of planned elective egg-freezing cycles in the U.S. nearly quadrupled between 2014 and 2021.
The UCLA study also found that only 5.7 percent of women who froze their eggs between 2014 and 2016 returned to use them during the study’s follow-up period of five to seven years.