Archive for July, 2009
Few Minority Companies Benefited From Florida’s $190 Million Scripps Project
West Palm Beach — Local businesses owned by minorities and women missed out on much of the work from the taxpayer-funded construction of The Scripps Research Institute’s new Palm Beach County campus. Read more
Hispanics Divided Over Census Boycott
The Census Bureau is waging an extensive campaign to make sure that minorities, including millions of illegal immigrants, are counted in next year’s census. But some in the Hispanic community are trying to undermine that effort. They want undocumented immigrants to boycott the census to send a protest message to Congress about the need to [...]
Report Says Immigration Crucial For Housing Recovery
Harvard brain trust predicts “strong” demographics will drive housing recovery, but immigration is a wild card. A perceived strain on government resources has caused some Americans to begrudge the country’s immigrant population. But Harvard researchers, in a new white paper released Monday, are saying that a slowdown in immigration could hurt the long-term real estate [...]
Divided Families: New Legislative Proposals Would Needlessly Restrict Family-Based Immigration
As Congress deliberates a new comprehensive immigration-reform bill, lawmakers are considering legislative proposals that would drastically restrict the family-based immigration system that has been the cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy for decades. Advocates of this more restrictive approach suggest that family-based immigrants have no vital economic or social role to play in the United States-in [...]
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