The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to give grocery and drug retail store workers an additional $5 per hour to offset the heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 while at work. Read more...
Photo: Essential workers at large grocery stores will soon receive an additional $5 in hourly wages in accordance with LA’s new hazard pay ordinance. (Lauren Man/Assistant Photo editor)
UCLA researchers can transfer mitochondria from one cell into another reprogrammable cell at a high rate using a newly developed technology called MitoPunch, according to UCLA research published in late December. Read more...
Photo: (Shruti Iyer/Daily Bruin senior staff)
President Joe Biden’s undoing of many of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies is an improvement, but there is still much left to do, UCLA students and professors said. Read more...
Photo: President Joe Biden issued 17 executive orders, memorandums and proclamations Jan. 20, which included orders to roll back several of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. UCLA faculty and students said this move is a good first step but that there is still a lot to be done. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Vietnamese student leaders voiced their support for a resolution to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of former Vietnamese Student Union president Thien Minh Ly, who was killed by white supremacists. Read more...
A UCLA-led team of researchers found that married mothers who entered the workforce in early to mid-adulthood showed slower rates of memory decline later in life. Read more...
Photo: UCLA researchers found married mothers who entered the workforce from early to mid-adulthood had slower rates of memory decline. (Illustration by Dani Nalangan/Daily Bruin Contributor)
Some restaurant workers and customers in Westwood said the reopening of outdoor dining on Friday may be good for businesses, but they are concerned about high COVID-19 case numbers in Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: On the first days of outdoor dining in LA County since November, restaurant employees and customers alike expressed ambivalence about the reopenings. (Michael Vigman/Daily Bruin)
For some students who work at grocery stores, being an essential worker has lost its novelty. “I didn’t even think about me as being an essential worker,” said Wanye’ Yoakum, a third-year African American studies and theater student who works at Target in Santa Monica. Read more...
Photo: Koray Mentesoglu, who works at Whole Foods Market, and several other students employed at grocery stores do not consider themselves essential workers. For some, the novelty of the term has disappeared. (Lauren Man/Assistant Photo editor)
