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| Majority of Chinese Now Live in Cities |
By MICHAEL WINES |
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 China’s urban population exceeded its rural population in 2011 for the first time in the nation’s history, a government agency reported. |
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| Counting Voters Fairly |
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| Other states should be encouraged by Maryland to adopt anti-gerrymandering laws that count inmates as residents in their home communities, not at location of their incarceration. |
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| Are We Really Monolingual? |
By MICHAEL ERARD |
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| It’s assumed that few Americans speak more than one language, compared with citizens of other nations — but is it true? |
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| OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; The Next Immigration Challenge |
By DOWELL MYERS |
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| Op-Ed article by Prof Dowell Myers holds the United States must shift from an immigration policy of keeping newcomers out to an immigrant policy of encouraging migrants and their children to integrate into nation's social fabric; says assimilation is crucial to economic growth as baby boomers retire and the labor force shrinks. Photo (M)l |
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| Migrants’ New Paths Reshaping Latin America |
By DAMIEN CAVE |
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 In Mexico and Latin America, old migratory patterns are changing as migrants move to a wider range of cities and countries, creating regional challenges and opportunities. |
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| The National Womb |
By ANASTASIA TAYLOR-LIND |
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 Nagorno-Karabakh is paying couples to have children, but is the solution simply to increase the birthrate, without first improving education, infrastructure and employment opportunities? |
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| NOW ARRIVING; In New York, Mexicans Lag In Education |
By KIRK SEMPLE |
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| Census data shows that New York City's Mexican population has highest school dropout rate, at about 41 percent of Mexicans between ages 16 to 19; shows that no other major immigrant group has dropout rate higher than 20 percent, and overall rate for city is less than 9 percent; crisis endures at college level, where only 6 percent of city's Mexicans are enrolled; problem is especially unsettling because Mexicans are city's fastest-growing major immigrant group. (Series: Now Arriving) Charts, Ph... |
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| Mexicans in New York City Lag in Education |
By KIRK SEMPLE |
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 Mexicans, the fastest-growing major immigrant group in the city, have the highest dropout rate: about 41 percent of Mexicans ages 16 to 19 have dropped out of school. |
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