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Some observers suggest Floridians shouldn't gripe too much, since they don't pay a state income tax. But they do pay onerous hurricane insurance premiums (a shock being felt in other coastal states as well) that in many cases exceed what a state income tax would levy. What's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Florida's Property Tax Revolt | 6/12/2007 | See Source »

But in a city that is now 37% black and 26% Latino, the trick is not to simply replace retiring white men with young white men. Even with the international push over the past 20 years or so, the archdiocese struggles to reflect its flock in the racial breakdown of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for Homegrown Priests | 6/10/2007 | See Source »

Certainly the way they have been reaching out at home hasn't been working so well. Since 1980, the priesthood in Chicago alone has dropped from more than 1,200 in 1980 to just over 800 now (including retired or otherwise not practicing priests). Nationwide, one in every three Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for Homegrown Priests | 6/10/2007 | See Source »

Before you talk about amnesty, it makes sense to address the anger that many citizens feel. Across the U.S., Americans feel squeezed and threatened by the newcomers. Part of the anxiety is undeniably race based. Fox News's Bill O'Reilly leavened his reluctant support for the Senate bill with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration: The Case for Amnesty | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

The first Hispanics didn't come to work at Cargill en masse until years later. And as Cargill likes to point out, more white workers work at the factory than before. The plant has in fact grown, thanks in large part to hardworking migrants, not just from Mexico but from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration: The Case for Amnesty | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

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