Word: ladders
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...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 of immigration. One reason: increases in the immigrant population have led to an expansion of government services, which has created...
Partly as a result of their academic accomplishments, Asians are climbing the economic ladder with remarkable speed. The 1980 census showed that median household income for the group as a whole was $22,700, exceeding not only that of American families in general ($19,900) but also the level reported by whites ($20,800). The national median was topped by the Japanese ($27,350), the Asian Indians ($24,990), the Filipinos ($23,680), the Chinese ($22,550) and Koreans ($20,450); among major Asian groups, only the Vietnamese ($12,840) fell below it. The household statistics are somewhat misleading...
Millions of black Americans have in fact clambered up the ladder to create a stable and growing black middle class. But there are two black Americas. The other is an entrenched underclass stuck at the very bottom of society. It is these blacks, an alarming percentage of them from fragmented families and households headed by women, who appear less capable of economic survival than the tenacious new immigrants...
Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson came to Harvard in 1953 as a graduate student. He worked his way up the academic ladder, from research fellow to lecturer to junior faculty, becoming one of Harvard's first Black tenured professors...
Stanton worked his way up the CBS ladder, but continued to devote time to the academic study of the media. From 1937 to 1940. Stanton was associate director of the Office of Radio Research at Princeton University. In 1940 he became a member of the advisory council of the Office of Radio Research at Columbia University...