Home Not Found: The Cost of Homelessness In Silicon Valley

This report analyzes comprehensive cross-sector information about the entire population of residents who experienced homelessness in Santa Clara County at any point during a six year period -- a total of 104,206 individuals. This information includes the demographic and medical attributes of each person, justice system history, services received, and the cost of those services. Records for this population were linked across all justice system, health care, social service, nonprofit, and housing agencies. With information about over one hundred thousand people over the six years from 2007 to 2012, including detailed records from each service provider, this is the largest and most comprehensive body of information that has been assembled in the United States to understand the public costs of homelessness

Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles

This report accompanies a companion publication entitled A Reality-Based Approach to Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles, which calls on everyone in the region to work together to end homelessness, and outlines a five-point action plan to achieve this goal. The companion piece takes the form of a petition signed by 54 local academics and researchers into homelessness. This report provides the detailed evidence on which the petition is based

Los Angeles Rising: A City that Works for Everyone

For many, Los Angeles evokes images of year-round sunshine and celebrity, a dream city of wealth and possibility. Yet in reality, half of L.A. residents living in poverty are employed, showing that low wages drive poverty as much as unemployment does. This report assesses the benefits and consequences of raising Los Angeles’s minimum wage to $15.25. The result will be an increase of$5.9 billion in wages with a stimulus effect for the region. Paying fair wages will be an adjustment for some businesses, but the result will be a bigger, more sustainable and inclusive economy for Los Angeles

Los Angeles Rising: A City that Works for Everyone

For many, Los Angeles evokes images of year-round sunshine and celebrity, a dream city of wealth and possibility. Yet in reality, half of L.A. residents living in poverty are employed, showing that low wages drive poverty as much as unemployment does. This report assesses the benefits and consequences of raising Los Angeles’s minimum wage to $15.25. The result will be an increase of$5.9 billion in wages with a stimulus effect for the region. Paying fair wages will be an adjustment for some businesses, but the result will be a bigger, more sustainable and inclusive economy for Los Angeles

Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles

This report accompanies a companion publication entitled A Reality-Based Approach to Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles, which calls on everyone in the region to work together to end homelessness, and outlines a five-point action plan to achieve this goal. The companion piece takes the form of a petition signed by 54 local academics and researchers into homelessness. This report provides the detailed evidence on which the petition is based

Antibody responses to Sarcoptes scabiei apolipoprotein in a porcine model: relevance to immunodiagnosis of recent infection

No commercial immunodiagnostic tests for human scabies are currently available, and existing animal tests are not sufficiently sensitive. The recombinant Sarcoptes scabiei apolipoprotein antigen Sar s 14.3 is a promising immunodiagnostic, eliciting high levels of IgE and IgG in infected people. Limited data are available regarding the temporal development of antibodies to Sar s 14.3, an issue of relevance in terms of immunodiagnosis. We utilised a porcine model to prospectively compare specific antibody responses to a primary infestation by ELISA, to Sar s 14.3 and to S. scabiei whole mite antigen extract (WMA). Differences in the antibody profile between antigens were apparent, with Sar s 14.3 responses detected earlier, and declining significantly after peak infestation compared to WMA. Both antigens resulted in >90% diagnostic sensitivity from weeks 8-16 post infestation. These data provide important information on the temporal development of humoral immune responses in scabies and further supports the development of recombinant antigen based immunodiagnostic tests for recent scabies infestations