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For two decades, Irma Chavez has lived in legal limbo. An Arkansas businesswoman with four American-born children, she remains a provisional resident of this country and must renew her status every 18 months. Now she’s trusting the Biden administration to make her life more certain and secure. “We really hope everything is going to change in our favor now,” Chavez told the Associated Press. “We are good people. We work. We do our taxes. We pay our taxes.” Immigrants lik...

White letters reading “National TPS Alliance On Hunger Strike For #ResidencyNow #TPSJustice” cover bright blue banners and T-shirts, and foldable chairs and tents sprinkle the ground outside Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. — the scene is set for a movement determined to create change. Local immigrants and Harrisonburg residents are heading to Washington, D.C., later this month to take part in a hunger strike in hopes that it’ll lead to immigration reform and protection for...

Immigration Reform Will Upend the Childcare Industry

Funding Guidelines for May 4, 2021 Deadline RSF will accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under these core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Economics; Decision Making & Human Behavior in Context; Future of Work; Social, Political and Economic Inequality. In addition, RSF will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address at least one of the following issues: Research on the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S. Specifically, research that asse...

Schoolchildren who are still learning English typically take a federally required test shortly after the winter break that measures their fluency in the language.   This school year is far from typical, of course, and many – if not most – of the countrys roughly 5 million public school English learners are receiving instruction at home. ACCESS, an English-proficiency test used by most states that takes up to four hours to complete, cant be done remotely.   Yet many states seem to ...

Philadelphias Open-Door Immigrant Policy Immigrant populations remain a key source of economic development for inner cities. Andy Kim   |   January 2011 Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s administration has taken an unabashed pro-immigrant stance, welcoming all with no questions asked. It may sound a bit extreme, but the move by the City of Brotherly Love reflects an open-arms approach to immigrants in urban areas -- and there’s a reason for this ope...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Fighting climate change with Great Depression-style organizing December 18, 2020 11:37 AM CDT By Manuel Pastor And J. Mijin Cha Time is running out to fight climate change, but there are valuable lessons on strategy and tactics that can be learned from the New Deal coalition. | ...

Manuel Pastor Dr. Manuel Pastor is a professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). Pastor has co-authored many books, including his latest volume with Chris Benner, "Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America’s Metro Areas" (UC Press 2015). Pastor is the inaugural holder of the Tur...

Home prices soared almost 20% across the state and the Central Coast has been squeezed tighter with prices up an average of 25%.

Real Estate Prices Soar During Pandemic, Climbing 25% In Parts Of California Wednesday, December 9, 2020 | Sacramento, CA In this Feb. 18, 2020 file photo a real estate sign is shown in front of a home for sale in San Francisco. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File Today, that would be extremely unlikely.  The price of real estate has soared across the country since the...