Results for immigrants
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Unable to Work, Indian Immigrant Women Turn to Spiritual Practices for Comfort
Originally Posted: 05/11/2012 - 9:55am | Type: Blog -
LOS ANGELES -- Even though she met her husband through an arranged marriage, Pooja Sindhwani considers herself a modern woman. She worked in interior design in her native India for four years, and she and her ...
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Work of Many Hands
Originally Posted: 04/24/2012 - 11:12am | Type: Magazine Article -
Ivone Guillen When you pick an apple in the store, think of those who held it first. A day in the life of a farm worker. ...
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Doing it the Hard Way
Originally Posted: 04/09/2012 - 1:59pm | Type: Magazine Article -
Betsy Shirley Gamaliel's Ana Garcia-Ashley is the first woman of color to lead a national community organizing network, faith-based ...
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Fields of Denial
Originally Posted: 03/06/2012 - 7:29pm | Type: Blog -
But even with its inclusive set of policy issues and actors, the Farm Bill is notable for one issue policymakers and advocates doesn’t touch: People who work on farms. About every five ...
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Welcoming the Stranger: Immigration and G92
Originally Posted: 02/08/2012 - 12:55pm | Type: Blog -
Whether what is happening in Alabama as a result of this law — and, as the program reveals, a great deal is happening, even if most of us outside of the state aren’t paying attention — was the intention of the b ...
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Mitt Romney and Moral Imagination
Originally Posted: 01/12/2012 - 5:58pm | Type: Blog -
It always is disturbing when you hear of politicians who create laws that don’t apply to themselves or start wars that their children won’t be fighting in. The center of a Chri ...
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Green Card is the Green Light to Jobs
Originally Posted: 05/23/2012 - 2:54pm | Type: Blog -
Every 100 immigrants with advanced degrees who worked in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields created an additional 262 jobs for U.S. natives according to Zavodny’s research. The numb ...
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The Immigrant Days of Christmas
Originally Posted: 12/22/2011 - 1:13pm | Type: Blog -
Unaccounted for in the empire, baby Jesus’ first movement in this world was a government-evading trek through the desert by night. I noticed this Christmas season, for the first time, ...
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Jim Wallis and Richard Land: Join the Great Conversation
Originally Posted: 11/03/2011 - 10:58am | Type: Blog -
Last night, at the National Press Club here in Washington D.C., the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and Sojourners co-sponsored a conversation between Richard L ...
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NEWS: Quick Links 2
Originally Posted: 10/28/2011 - 9:02am | Type: Blog -
MEDIA MATTERS: REPORT: In Immigration Coverage, Fox Shuns Pro-Immigrant Voices MEDIA MATTERS: REPORT: In Immigration Coverage, Fox Shuns Pro-Immigrant Voices A year ago, News C ...