News | USC Dornsife News | November 2024

How best to improve L.A. County residents’ lives? Ask them

Over the last five years, Kyla Thomas has gotten to know Los Angeles County and its residents like few others.

As director of LABarometer, Thomas, a sociologist at the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) based at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, leads an effort to capture the pulse of the county’s residents twice each year on issues affecting their daily lives, from rent costs and neighborhood conditions to transportation and health care.