Tag: Immigration
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Drain or gain?
Economist: Drain or gain? Poor countries can end up benefiting when their brightest citizens emigrate … Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing countries are particularly likely to emigrate. By some estimates, two-thirds of highly educated Cape Verdeans live outside the country. A big survey of Indian households carried out in 2004…
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Question About Immigration Law and the Ancient Near East
We've all been hearing about the new immigration law in Arizona. And as is to be expected, church folk are trotting out Leviticus 19:33-34 about "the alien who resides with you." As we all know, trotting out Old Testament law and uncritically applying it to contemporary circumstances is always risky. For instance, what would it…
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Germany’s Jews: Latkes and Vodka
The Economist: Germany's Jews: Latkes and Vodka Immigrants from the former Soviet Union are transforming Jewish life in Germany. IN 1938 Julius Schoeps's parents did what many German Jews who were prescient or lucky did at the time: they left. They went to Sweden, where Julius's father worked as an archivist. Julius was born there…
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Importing Poverty
Washington Post: Importing Poverty Paul Samuelson The standard story is that poverty is stuck; superficially, the statistics support that. The poverty rate measures the share of Americans below the official poverty line, which in 2006 was $20,614 for a four-person household. Last year, the poverty rate was 12.3 percent, down slightly from 12.6 percent in…