President obama will hold a meeting. Journalshington september 15. School will be canceled today in washington. Educators are seeking almost a 10 pay raise over two years. The larger issue of teacher pay is our focus this morning. Particularly, teachers in the school and your district. Do they receive adequate pay . For parents, you can call 202 7488001. All others, 202 7488002. If you want to post on our social media site, it is on twitter. And facebook. Facebook. Com cspan. Here are the specifics of what is going on in seattle. Here is what teachers are asking for. Ing, well sis basic specifics were not proposed disclosed, they announced on sunday. Wo9. 75 pay raise over t years. Because neither raise applied to the full salary the effective increase is lower. The most recent counter offer was a 9. 2 raise over three years. That is what is going on in seattle but the larger issue of teacher pay, if you think it is adequate, that is our focus. If you want to give our thoughts your tho
Us in terms of harvesting cotton and tomatoes. At the end of the basero program is one Significant Impact. Also what we see at the same time was there was not not only was there a number of visas available to mexican nationals, right, but we also see a shift in the temporary worker programs. So at this time, there had been, prior to 1965, a temporary worker program, h2 program. It was relatively small in scale and continues to be relatively small in scale. Prior to 1965, the burden was on the government to show that the workers that were coming in under the temporary programs would not harm the u. S. Workforce. Beginning in 1965, that burden then shifted to employers. What this meant was there was more of an active, exantiscreening role that the government played in determining which temporary workers and generally which foreignborn workers would be able to come into the United States, giving the government more control in terms of limiting the access of mexican and other latinamerican
Of the law and africanamericans that gets relatively little attention but deserves more. In they often talk about latinos it reflects what it means for africanamericans there is a very vigorous debate is positive for harmful to say there is a positive impact and they tend to be more positive in terms of the Economic Impact overall. There are other general studies that have done some wage impact to get the same time to look to the industries where employers have intentionally chosen to replace traditionally vulnerable groups as a longstanding Latino Community and that is purposely with a guest workers are more exploitable and former paul. Formidable. But think of it as civil rights and equity. The of the ways in which the undocumented population has affected the latino communities with racial profiling and discrimination we have to ask ourselves what is the impact on communities of color . Antiminority attitudes another way to look at it that has spurred the growth including the Immigra
Backdrop of significant civil rights advancement in the United States including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 1965, ten years on the heels of brown versus board of education. So, what is the lesson we can draw . One is that the Immigration Law for the future in our current push for comprehensive Immigration Reform should also take that frame of a civil rights legislation which is the civil rights project of our time and will continue to be as long as we do not as long as we avoid addressing this problem of illicit mess and reality. Just a word or two to build on that. He has nicely framed this question of again. But, and i think it really is the key, but in terms of if its fair to call Immigration Law a civil rights issue, ii would argue absolutely, in light of the types of mechanisms that have been deployed by the state against foreignborn persons and there are clear parallels between the experience of africanamericans, latinos, and other disadvantaged grou
Dialing in. The candidates talked terror last night. Thats the headline over las vegas. That was the topic after the paris attacks and the San Bernardino shootings. If you look at some of the early voting states, well start with the des moines register, where they have the caucus, the headline out of iowa, republicans in that state say trump slips, rubio shines. A little bit from jennifer acobs piece this morning host it said bush repeatedly feuded with trump, and at the same time drove home that National Security is his wheelhouse, the iowans said. Take a look at the he can changes between the Florida Governor and donald trump last night. Well begin with trump defending his stance on muslims and jeb bush following occupy that, saying its not a serious proposal and that donald trump is not a serious candidate. First of all, we need to destroy isis. That should be our objective much the refugee issue will be solved if we destroy isis there, which means we need a nofly zone, safe zones f