The Bigger Picture
The Bigger Picture works to unearth the connections between scholars and the communities in which we live and work. How these connections are working to germinate new ideas and serve our community. Scholars, activists, and practitioners share how their communities impact research, how their research works toward the betterment of their communities as well as more effective democracy together.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2021
CSI & Imagine LA De-mystify the Social Safety Net for Working Families
Today, USC Senior Olivia Olson, speaks with USC Price Center for Social Innovation and Imagine LA to understand a partnership study that examined the complex social safety network for low-income work…
Students & Innovative Emergency Aid
Even before the COVID pandemic brought the notion of precarity to the mainstream, many populations in the U.S. and abroad faced life through different types of insecurity.
In 2019, after hearing sto…
What the Heck Is a SIB?
Conversations about governmental and social services can get pretty wonky ... and yet ... they are often vital for making real change, particularly at the local level.
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) allo…
The LEWIS Registry
The folks from the USC Safe Communities Institute stopped by to tell us all about the new LEWIS Registry. The LEWIS Registry is a crowdsourced public database for police officers who have been fired …
Language, Law, & Race: A Conversation With Jody Armour
Olivia Olson speaks with Professor Jody Armour about the power of "word work to really make the frozen circumstances that somebody is stuck in dance, by playing them to their own melody."
In Prof Arm…
The Case for Medicare to Cover Home Safety Renovations
Falling is the number one cause of injury and the seventh leading cause of death in adults ages 65 and older.
In “Breaking Down Silos to Improve the Health of Older Adults,” Richard Green, Patricia H…
TOC & Affordability
Los Angeles County has a housing problem.
There have been at least a dozen studies just at USC in the last year which tell us housing is not affordable and hard to find. So how have recent ballot ini…
Fair Chance Hiring in the City of Angels
Victoria Ciudad-Real, John Roberson III, Gary Painter, and Jeffery Wallace join us for a conversation about Fair Chance Hiring. We'll get to the root of their collaborative project, "Accelerating Fai…
COVID to Jobless to Homeless - Can We Prevent This?
Daniel Flaming & Anthony Orlando stopped into a Zoom room with our ED a few weeks ago to share findings from a new report. Their focus is on homelessness during and after the COVID pandemic.
Anyone …
Angelenos Give Up Too Much for Housing
As soon as someone mentions housing affordability, and at the Price School that is everyday, I can't help but think of Jimmy McMillan. You might not remember his name, but likely you remember the nam…
Data & Justice in Los Angeles
"The past decade has elevated the urgent need for police reform, brought to the forefront by high-profile police killings and movements like #BlackLivesMatter. To better understand conceptions of pub…