Listening to Donald Trump describe the U.S. in 2016 was to hear a story of a nation in peril of losing its identity to waves of brown-skinned invaders. Immigration and the border, particularly the urgent need to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, dominated Trump’s campaign rhetoric.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, has at times proved an obstacle to the advancement of immigrant rights during her three years on the Seventh Circuit.
A report this summer from the Migration Policy Institute outlined over 400 actions on immigration that had been enacted by a sprawling array of federal departments in the Trump era.
The Trump administration said Wednesday it is making more undocumented immigrants eligible to be quickly deported without a court hearing, instructing federal immigration agents to oversee the nationwide expansion of a policy that had long been limited to border areas.
We find that in the aftermath of the EO, the market valuation of the Fortune 500 companies in our sample dropped by about 0.45 percent, a loss to the economy as a whole that we estimate at around $100 billion based on the market valuation of the same firms a day before the EO.
Mexico is investigating claims that six Mexican women were sterilised while in a US migrant detention centre, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday.
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Trump has had the most anti-legal immigration presidency in history. From the outset, his administration has waged an all-out assault on the very few options available to foreign nationals to legally immigrate.
The Trump administration’s assault on immigrants is based on what you might call the “rock and a hard place” theory: Stick immigrants between enough rocks and hard places and eventually their only choice is to leave the United States.
A federal appeals court has effectively greenlighted the Trump administration’s plan to expel more than 300,000 undocumented immigrants from El Salvador, Nicaragua and Sudan from the U.S. by ending the “temporary protected status” they have enjoyed for as long as two decades.
Clusiau and Schwarz, faced legal threats from ICE to delay the documentary until the 2020 presidential election had passed. Released Aug. 3, the series followed ICE agents during their raids and showed the testimonies of many migrants crossing illegally.
The rule could have a drastic impact on the half million or so immigrants in the U.S. who receive green cards — the first step to citizenship — each year. 69% of recent green card recipients had at least one negative public charge factor, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
“Smugglers are unscrupulous criminals and will stop at nothing to enrich their pockets, even if it involves locking human beings in trailers intended for animals,” said Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark A. Morgan.
When ICE arrests people, it typically holds them for weeks before any judge evaluates whether ICE had a valid legal basis to make the arrest.
At US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities operated by for-profit contractors, detainees "often do not receive critical treatment or face delays," the inquiry found.
"This commission believes that an adequate education is the key to unlocking a lifetime of opportunities and also is a basic civil right," said Stacie Clayton, MCRC chair. "We learned during our education hearings that not all children receive the kind of education they deserve as their birthright.
New Jersey spent more than three decades and over $100 billion targeting money to its most struggling school districts in an attempt to rectify generations of inequity in its education system.In the end, it just solved one problem and created another.
Districts are eliminating gifted classes and instead trying to teach all students together. In some places, it's working — but schools also face challenges.
American education is largely a local affair including a historical dependence on local property taxes to fund schools (still over a third of average school revenue) leaving America the only developed country where students from rich families get more education funding than students from low-income families.
People have been talking about educational inequity for decades, but nothing has etched its outlines as sharply as the pandemic. When schools closed last spring, disadvantaged students were less likely to have the computers and broadband connections needed to log in to virtual classes, as well as parents who knew how to navigate this new world of remote learning.
While nationally scores on Advanced Placement courses are rising, there are “distressing results” in the scores for minority students — more than 70% failed.
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Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California at Berkeley. He preferred to work at night, when it was quiet and the distractions of the day didn’t pull at his mind.
Last week, with the campus closed because of the novel coronavirus, his refuge and the resources that came with it were gone.
Nearly half of adults who responded to a national survey said self-doubt is one of the largest challenges they would face if they enrolled in a postsecondary education or training program.
Students of color are more likely to take on student debt and disproportionately struggle to pay it back at higher rates than their white counterparts,
perpetuating a "vicious cycle" of economic inequality along racial lines, research released Monday suggests.
Less than four miles separate Lower Merion High School in Ardmore from Overbrook High School in West Philadelphia, but the two schools and their communities are worlds apart.
Many metro Atlanta students are struggling with online learning. Black, Latino and low-income families who are being disproportionately affected
by COVID-19 are being
hit especially hard.
As a strange new school booted up online last week in living rooms and kitchens across this compact, densely populated city north of Boston, moms like Nery Martinez and Graciela Galdamez tried to believe that it was for the best.
Beliefs about Black cultural deficiencies show up regularly in the field of inequality and poverty studies. It’s time to call that what it is: racism.
"We're all in school and we're all giving the same amount of time, but we're not having the same invested back into us."
As California faces the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has responded by ushering in a number of criminal justice reforms, including changes to the systems of adult probation, juvenile justice and policing.
Among the police and criminal justice reform measures were proposals that would change policing methods, impose new disciplinary actions for law enforcement and reduce penalties of certain crimes.
George Floyd’s death prompted lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to consider ways to reform policing. Some of their suggestions hold promise. But other radical ideas are wide of the mark and, if enacted, would pose a serious threat to public safety. Eliminating qualified immunity falls squarely in that category.
In Oklahoma, voters could ban harsh sentencing enhancements that can keep people in prison longer for nonviolent crimes. In California, voters will consider three measures: one to affirm the end of cash bail, another to let people vote while on parole, and a third to roll back recent criminal justice reforms
Virtually overnight, COVID-19 laid bare our nation’s alarming vulnerability to a large-scale public health emergency, causing wrenching damage in all corners of American life. Fast-moving and deadly, the coronavirus has placed enormous pressure on our criminal justice system — our jails and prisons, courts and law enforcement agencies.
Behind the scenes, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) regularly contravenes the efforts of the criminal justice reform movement.
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With 2.3 million people in the US prison system, 7 million on parole or probation, and 1 in 3 African-American men expected to go to prison at some point in their lifetime, we are facing a crisis of dramatic proportions.
Despite a renewed focus on wrongful arrests and racial discrimination after the death of George Floyd, meaningful reform of the massive U.S. criminal justice system is un-likely ahead of the November election, politicians and activists say.
Yesterday, a Pennsylvania judge threw out Kunco’s conviction, finding that had the new evidence been presented at trial, the jury likely would not have returned a conviction.
Oklahoma voters have supported criminal justice reforms in recent years and are being asked to do so again in November, this time with a state question that, if approved, would affect prison terms for repeat nonviolent offenders.
Encounters with the criminal justice system can depress wages for the entirety of a career. Black and Latino Americans suffer these consequences most acutely.
A black person is killed by a police officer in America at the rate of more than one every other day. Floyd’s death followed those of Breonna Taylor, an emergency medical technician shot at least eight times inside her Louisville, Ky.,
Imagine a world dominated by computer algorithms deciding who’s a danger to public safety and made by the same predictive models that help you discover a new TV show on Netflix.
With nearly 2.3 million prisoners behind bars, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
There are inequalities of opportunity and inequalities of outcome; there is overall inequality and there is inequality at the tails of the distribution. Should we be more worried about absolute or relative positions – mobility or stability? What is really more important, the distribution of the economic pie or the level and growth of living standards?
The risks of algorithmic discrimination and bias have received much attention and scrutiny, and rightly so. Yet there is another more insidious side-effect of our increasingly AI-powered society — the systematic inequality created by the changing nature of work itself.
Income inequality is a global issue that has become more prominent in recent years. As the top 1 percent now own 40 percent of all national wealth, economists and politicians have been debating solutions for decreasing this growing wealth disparity and increasing the economic prospects of the lower and middle classes.
Fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is widening the gap between haves and have-nots in China, a trend that could bring social tensions and undermine the country’s stronger-than-expected economic recovery.
Inequality in both advanced economies and emerging markets has been on the rise in recent decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and raised awareness of disparities between the rich and poor.
A committee that advises the C.D.C.’s director is working on a plan to equitably distribute immunizations when they become available.
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What American workers need are multiple simultaneous experiments in rebuilding worker power, from tweaking existing labor laws to sectoral bargaining to the creation of whole new trade associations and broad-based not-for-profit organizations.
We need a better system of transferring patients to ensure the best care during the next phase of the pandemic.
America's failure to address wide gaps between Black and White communities has cost the economy up to $16 trillion over the past 20 years, according to an analysis published by Citigroup this week.
For the first time in U.S. history, the top twelve U.S. billionaires surpassed a combined wealth of $1 trillion. On Thursday August 13, these 12 held a combined $1.015 trillion.
The Federal Reserve said Monday that American households’ net worth jumped nearly 7% in the April-June quarter to $119 trillion. That figure had sunk to $111.3 trillion in the first quarter, when the coronavirus battered the economy and sent stock prices tumbling.
This series will feature discussions with some of the leading voices who are championing diversity and spotlighting ways to make actionable change in a divided country.
Like many of the virus’s hardest hit victims, the United States went into the COVID-19 pandemic wracked by preexisting conditions.
This dramatic redistribution of income from the majority of workers to those at the very top is so complete that even at the 95th percentile, most workers are still earning less than they would have had inequality held constant.
Extreme poverty is set to rise this year for the first time in more than two decades, with coronavirus expected to push up to 115 million people into that category, the World Bank has said.
Although the federal Cares Act, which gave Americans a one-time stimulus check of $1,200 and unemployed workers an extra $600 each week, was successful at offsetting growing poverty rates in the spring, the effects were short-lived, researchers found in the study published Thursday.
For almost 25 years, extreme poverty was steadily declining. Now, for the first time in a generation, the quest to end poverty has suffered its worst setback. This setback is largely due to major challenges — COVID 19, conflict, and climate change — facing all countries, but in particular those with large poor populations.
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown between 88 million and 114 million people into extreme poverty, according to the World Bank’s biennial estimates of global poverty.
Compared to 2019, poverty in 2020 could rise by 120 million people. Compared to the baseline path for poverty, the 2020 figure is 144 million people higher. Some of this will be offset as economies start to recover in 2021, but the longer-term scenario suggests that half of the rise in poverty could be permanent. By 2030, the poverty numbers could still be higher than the baseline by 60 million people.
The one-two punch of the
worst health crisis and economic downturn in decades has brought to the fore an issue
that has been simmering for decades: an increasing
income and wealth disparity among Americans.
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Almost three-quarters of rich Americans who were in their 50s and 60s in 1992 were still alive in 2014. Just over half of poor Americans in their 50s and 60s in 1992 made it to 2014.
Income inequality in the United States has hit its highest level since the Census Bureau started tracking it more than five decades ago, according to
data released Thursday, even
as the nation’s poverty and unemployment rates are
at historic lows.
What we have been seeing is rising inequality with stagnant mobility, which means that the consequences of where you start out, whether it's in a poor neighborhood, whether it's from a single-parent household, are more consequential today than in the past.
Beliefs about Black cultural deficiencies show up regularly in the field of inequality and poverty studies. It’s time to call that what it is: racism.
Taking decisive action is important, but those assembled should focus less on new initiatives and take a hard look at what we should stop doing to prevent low-income families from finding relief.
Anti-poverty and justice-seeking policymakers and advocates have long pursued policy and practice solutions targeted toward what we refer to here as “places in need.”
The city’s poverty rate fell in 2019. But the events of 2020 have all but certainly reversed that trend.
Many of us believe that, because the US social safety net is so imperfect, extreme poverty is more prevalent there than elsewhereand certainly among developed countries
Diversion assists people who have just lost their housing and are seeking emergency shelter or facing unsheltered homelessness by having problem-solving conversations to understand what precipitated their housing crisis and their own plan to avoid homelessness.
Housing can help people experiencing homelessness, especially those struggling with mental health issues like depression or anxiety, achieve stability, which is key to their well-being.
As Oakland struggles to get a handle on its worsening homelessness crisis, the city for the first time will govern its unhoused communities with a set of sweeping rules that dictate where people can and can’t camp and how their campsites must be maintained.
Almost 270,000 students in K-12 schools lacked stable housing in 2018-19, numbers that almost certainly have grown since the pandemic and economic downturn began last spring, researchers said.
During the pandemic’s first weeks in Denver, the city partnered with Catholic Charities of Denver and the Denver Rescue Mission to create two mega shelters—one for men, at the National Western Complex, and one for women, at the Denver Coliseum—where nearly 1,000 temporary residents could get a socially distanced cot, hot meals, and showers and have their clothes cleaned regularly.
“The partisan politics, the arguments over commissioners and unrelated issues are preventing a state bonding bill when the bonding is cheap and we need to ramp up housing production". To me, that's political malpractice.
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At least 145 tents and tarp-covered shelters — several of which appear abandoned, resembling little more than heaps of trash — are behind the barrier, covering most of 10 acres of fields where perhaps more than 100 people live.
It's unclear how many of
the nation's homeless residents have fallen ill or died in connection with the pandemic.
The most recent data was recorded in 2017-18 and was more than double the nearly 680,000 homeless students reported in 2004-05, the director of National Centre for Homeless Education told the New York Times.
During a conversation, he was critical of state politicians who had let politics block a badly needed bonding bill that could contain hundreds of millions for affordable housing.
The L.A. Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) released the results of its 2020 youth homeless count, which shows a 19% increase across Los Angeles county from the year before.
Kasey Congero, of Ending Homeless Team at Monarch Housing Associates, said data collected for the NJCounts 2020 report found 9,663 men, women and children in 7,365 households experienced homelessness, an increase of about 799 people from 2019.
Gullion explained that Compass Point Housing has three different levels of housing, Level One, Two and Three, respectively.
The most recent survey by the Wilder Foundation found that on a single night in October 2018, 11,371 people didn’t have housing in Minnesota.