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...School of Government study found. The working paper, entitled “The Globalization of Household Production,” was co-authored by Gates Professor of Developing Societies Michael R. Kremer and Stanley Watt, who recently received his PhD in economics at Harvard. Employment of certain types of immigrants??namely, women who serve as household laborers—can free up native skilled workers to contribute positively in the economy as part of the workforce, the researchers found. According to a press release, the study “challenges many existing theories about the economic impacts...
...that means providing more citizenship tutoring or doing other things to improve the lives of immigrants in the Boston area, so be it. I prefer international outreach as the modicum of real change, but local work is still extremely commendable. Organizing the millions that have demonstrated in favor of immigrants?? rights is truly an amazing accomplishment— especially with a population that is so diverse and divided. It took the time and energy of city officials and activists alike to accomplish that. Yet, that effort must now be utilized for systematic change. We have shown that...
Today is the first of May, a day that could signify the inauguration of global citizenship.For many in the U.S., this is a day of demonstrations for immigrants?? rights. For me, it is the culmination of a long trip that began two months ago in Guatemala, and—after a difficult journey that included a near-death experience at the hands of smugglers—will end today with a speech at Georgetown University. The pro-immigrant movement is bigger than amnesty, workers’ rights, and equal access to education; this movement is an declaration...
Before venturing into the immigration debate, you should probably select your rhetorical weapons. Are we dealing with “undocumented immigrants?? or “illegal aliens”? Does the McCain-Kennedy bill recently approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee allow for “earned citizenship” or “amnesty”? Is the issue one of “fairness” or one of “law and order?...
...from rabble-rousing supporters of Abraham Lincoln. Though much has changed in the last 144 years, a large part of St. Louis’s charter can still be traced to the political situation at the outbreak of the Civil War, when its large population of anti-slavery German immigrants??the mid-19th century equivalent of today’s “dangerous radicals”—made St. Louis a significant threat to the newly seceded Confederacy.For those of you who haven’t been reading the news, the Civil War ended...