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)
This post was updated Jan. 31 at 8:44 p.m. An emergency medical services commission passed a motion Wednesday to recommend keeping a UCLA Health-owned medical center in Los Angeles open to continue providing health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
Photo: LA County’s Emergency Medical Services Agency is urging that Olympia Medical Center, a hospital UCLA Health recently purchased, stay open until Sept. 31. (Javier Jauregui/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Jan. 31 at 8:30 pm. Summer session classes at UCLA will be mostly remote because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a university administrator announced Friday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA extended remote instruction through summer sessions, with the exception of some classes that train students for essential workforce positions. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
This post was last updated Jan. 31 at 8:42 pm. UCLA received a record number of applications for fall 2021 admission, including an increase in applications from historically underrepresented communities. Read more...
Photo: Record numbers of students from underrepresented communities applied to UCLA for fall 2021. The school received the highest number of applications in its history. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
This post was updated Jan. 31 at 8:35 p.m. Los Angeles County allowed restaurants to reopen outdoor dining Friday, according to a revised health order issued Friday. Read more...
Photo: Restaurants across Los Angeles County are reopening outdoor dining after Friday’s revised health order withdrew the ban on outdoor dining after two months. (Michael Vigman/Daily Bruin)
The United States economy is projected to begin recovering in the spring, though female- and minority-led industries may recover slower, UCLA economists said. A National Women’s Law Center January analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly job report showed that in December, women lost 156,000 jobs, comprising 100% of U.S. Read more...
Photo: A UCLA Anderson Forecast predicts the U.S. economy will start to recover in spring. However, economists add that sectors that contain more minorities and more women, might not be able to recover as fast. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)
