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2025 Spring Student Events at the Labor Center

Join the UC Berkeley Labor Center this Spring! Find out more about the labor movement and social justice work by attending our panel discussions, free film screenings, partner event talks, and more.

Labor Summer Internship

Apply by February 7 for the 2025 Labor Summer Internship Program! Spend your summer learning about social and economic justice and exploring the intersections of race, class, gender, and immigration in the labor movement!

Jessie HF Hammerling,Will ToaspernandLaura Schmahmann

Refining Transition: A Just Transition Economic Development Framework For Contra Costa County, California

In this report, we discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Contra Costa as it prepares for the cascading effects of an energy transition that is already unfolding. We propose a just transition framework to guide an economic development strategy capable of addressing the specific challenges facing Contra Costa and setting the county on a path toward a more resilient, healthy, and equitable local economy.

Capital & Main

How Trump Administration Cuts Could Hurt Medi-Cal

During Trump’s first term, congressional Republicans proposed slashing Medicaid funding, though the measure did not clear the U.S. Senate. Had it passed, “California would have lost tens of billions of federal dollars,” Lucia said. Should the Trump administration go after the program on a similar scale in 2025, California wouldn’t be able to fill the resulting revenue hole with state funds.