Word: impactful
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...Defense Department has awarded a plum to AT&T. It granted the company a contract to install and service minicomputers for the National Security Agency. Value of the deal: $950 million over the next three years. The size of the agreement, though, was less important than its psychological impact. Says Jean Yates, a California consultant: "AT&T has won a major contract against IBM. That's the way to look...
...Cheap immigrant labor has a posi tive impact on the American economy and actually creates jobs in some minority neighborhoods...
Thomas Muller, an economist with the Washington-based Urban Institute who has studied the impact of immigration in California, estimates that in Los Angeles alone, 52,000 Americans and legal immigrants can thank illegal workers from Mexico for their jobs. The main beneficiaries include salesclerks, teachers and health-care workers. Moreover, according to Muller, the arrival of a large group of new workers at the bottom of the economic ladder has, in the traditional pattern of American immigration, helped others climb to the next rung. Muller found that California's blacks did not suffer an increase in unemployment because...
Studies of the net impact of immigrants on government finance are sketchy and often contradictory. The Urban Institute found that in 1980 California spent an average of $3,254 on each Mexican immigrant household, both legal and illegal, in Los Angeles, but received tax revenues of only $1,515 in return. On the other hand, a 1982-83 study by Weintraub and his associates at the University of Texas indicated that Texas reaps about three times as much revenue from illegal aliens as it spends on them...
...impact of Hispanics on the larger culture is growing imperceptibly. The most noticeable change is culinary. In Chicago, for example, the Yellow Pages list 36 Latin restaurants, one with the hybrid name of Guadalaharry's; some have appeared in the fashionable Lincoln Park and Old Town areas. In the Long Island suburbs of New York City, packaged taco mixes are appearing in many supermarkets whose customers are nearly all Anglo...