Newswire: immigration
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- Gregory Korte of The Cincinnati Enquirer linked first on March 15, 2010 at 8:37AM EDT
- Gregory said: Americans believe the American Dream is in trouble: 60 percent say the dream is harder to achieve for them than it was for their parents, and 68 percent say it will be even more difficult for their children. That's the conclusion of the inaugural survey of the Xavier University Institute for Politics and the American Dream, which polled 1,022 people nationally about their attitudes on this uniquely American idea.
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- Daniel Maldonado of AL DIA NEWS linked first on March 6, 2010 at 7:27PM EST
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- Daniel Maldonado of AL DIA NEWS linked first on March 6, 2010 at 7:26PM EST
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- Dan Schank of Ode Magazine linked first on March 3, 2010 at 5:57PM EST
- Dan said: Here's another great link from Ode reader Charity Moschopoulos. The daily "Job English" class at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, NY certainly isn't your typical college seminar. The students are mostly Guatemalan immigrants, and the class is designed to help them communicate more clearly at work, where they often struggle with English. The structure of the program is atypical as well, with "no set group of students that moves through lessons together, and very little interaction among students, which places the burden on the instructor to develop conversational skills. " The classes can be challenging, but David C. Bernstein, Dean of the school's English Language Institute, sees great value in it regardless: "A lot of the people who come to the center looking for workers are interested in hiring someone who knows some English. So it's important for the day laborers to learn some practical language, such as being able to ask when they will get paid and at what time they can take a lunch break."
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- Titania Veda of Jakarta Globe linked first on March 3, 2010 at 12:52AM EST
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- Renee Davidson of Journalism Center on Children & Families linked first on March 2, 2010 at 10:47AM EST
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- Jeffrey Young of The Hill linked first on February 25, 2010 at 2:29PM EST
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- Megan Finnegan of NYCity NewsService linked first on February 25, 2010 at 8:47AM EST
- Megan said: I co-wrote this with fellow journalist Eleanor Miller. View her work at www.eleanoramiller.com.
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- Renee Davidson of Journalism Center on Children & Families linked first on February 22, 2010 at 9:34AM EST
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- Jon Beaupre of University Times/Cool State Online linked first on February 17, 2010 at 4:30AM EST
- Jon said: While Cord Jefferson fails to make a causal connection between levels of employment for undocumented workers vs. black workers, the questions he raises are worth discussing. While the numbers he reports are provocative and incendiary on occasion, he doesn't really reveal a causal relationship between black unemployment and levels of employment for undocumented people.
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