Sentences with phrase «high immigrant populations»

«Locker room fears: if 40 % of boys are now left intact» Maybe if you live in an area of the US that has a very high immigrant population this would be true.

Thirty researchers from around the world toured Montgomery Knolls Elementary School, a school with a high immigrant population.

Not exact matches

In Canada, Austrailia and Germany — to name a few places — immigrants and refugees have had a higher rate of successful entrepreneurial endeavors than the native population.

Chief economist Fred Morley says keeping population growth rates high through retaining immigrants and new university graduates is key to supporting business and to growing the tax base.

These losses, however, have been partly offset by the number of people who have changed their affiliation to Catholicism (2.6 % of the adult population) but more importantly by the disproportionately high number of Catholics among immigrants to the U.S..

Meanwhile the Telegraph reports that the population is 61,000,000 driven largely immigration and the high birth rate of immigrant mothers accounting for half the growth.

«The borough's population has been growing at an annual rate of one percent since 2010, the highest of any county in the state, thanks to an influx of immigrants.

Large urban areas have large immigrant populations spanning a range from very low income to very high income professionals and are vital to large urban economies.

A growing population of Mexican immigrants in the Bronx and NYC are falling way behind in high school graduation rates.

Her own research interest is immigration and domestic violence; Kupchik's project, at a high school with a large population of Mexican immigrants, offered her an opportunity «to go into the high school and look at a population I had not really focused on before,» she says.

On a per capita basis, Sweden has granted more refugee applications than any other high - income country, and in 2011, refugees constituted 12 % of the total immigrant population.

«Given that Canada is currently experiencing a rapid growth in the population of foreign - born citizens — one of the highest rates of any Western nation — the mental health status of immigrants and refugees should be a national priority,» writes Dr. Kelly Anderson, an assistant professor at Western University, London, Ontario, and a fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), with coauthors.

He suggests that the lower excess risk among migrants may be because Canada's ethnically diverse general population, against whom immigrants were compared, may also include some groups that tend to experience higher rates of schizophrenia.

Yet it is well - established through population studies in Canada, the U.K. and Western Europe that the risk of developing schizophrenia is higher in immigrants and their children than non-immigrants.

According to scientist John McGrath of Australia, who reviewed 843 published and 41 unpublished reports to obtain his data, reported that schizophrenia has a higher incidence in developed countries, among immigrant populations (as opposed to native - born residents), and among men.

Ukraine's population downsized from 52 million in 1991 to 42 million at present Russia hosts the highest number of immigrants from Ukraine — ...

Grassroots organizations in Arizona and Florida have begun efforts to place initiatives on ballots in their states, and interest appears high in other states, including ones with smaller immigrant populations.

The area has a high population of immigrant families, and more than 60 percent of students come from homes in which English is not the primary language spoken.

Initially Milwaukee Catholic schools served immigrant families, today our schools serve mostly high poverty neighborhoods in the city with more than 80 % of our student population considered economically disadvantaged.

International Community High School, serves a high needs population of recent immigrants in the South BrHigh School, serves a high needs population of recent immigrants in the South Brhigh needs population of recent immigrants in the South Bronx.

The SIFE population presents a range of special challenges to U.S. education systems, especially at the high school level where the overall dropout rate of immigrant teens is very high (Morse, 2005; Osterling, 2001).

What's more, the U.S. already has a large immigrant population, and history teaches us that strong public schools are a key avenue for all members of our communities to be able to attain higher levels of education and go on to work in well - compensated and satisfying jobs.

Before the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was rescinded in September 2017, a national survey of the recipients of the program — a subset of the Dreamer population — showed that they were able to pursue greater educational opportunities and earn higher wages.96 Another report found that DACA recipients and DACA - eligible immigrants contribute approximately $ 2 billion in state and local taxes annually.97

In a state that has a marked migrant and immigrant student population, there are those who worry that this revolutionary concept could only serve to broaden the already vast chasm between the schools that serve the higher socioeconomic classes and those that don't, an educational wall built between the haves and the have - nots.

And, when it comes to business, there's quite a bit to celebrate, too, with business ownership rates higher in the immigrant versus non-immigrant population.

They also lead the way when it comes to higher education — despite the fact that immigrants make up just 12.9 percent of the U.S. population.

In contrast, the US has a much higher birthrate (around replacement levels for the native born), has an increasing native population due to the baby boom echo, and allows a large number of immigrants each year.

As discussed earlier, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that communities of color, poor communities, and certain other vulnerable populations (like new immigrant communities) are at a higher risk to the adverse effects of extreme weather events.263, 264,239 These vulnerable populations could benefit from urban planning policies that ensure that new buildings, including homes, are constructed to resist extreme weather events.303

These metro geographic area characteristics include: high levels of poverty, huge young person unemployment, significant welfare dependence, massive violent crime outcomes, substantial illegal immigrant populations, and just plain, awful, lousy education

These metro geographic area characteristics include: high levels of poverty, huge young person unemployment, significant welfare dependence, massive violent crime outcomes, substantial illegal immigrant populations, and just plain, awful, lousy education performance.

Confronted by the grave warnings thus issuing from courts of great pan-European authority, citizens of countries whose Muslim population is increasing very rapidly by immigration and a relatively high birthrate may ask themselves whether it is prudent, or just to the children and grandchildren of everyone in their country, to permit any further migratory increase in that population, or even to accept the presence of immigrant non-citizen Muslims without deliberating seriously about a possible reversal — humane and financially compensated for and incentivised — of the inflow.

It will concentrate on two high risk populations: those immigrants with removal orders against them and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients — undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children and have spent most of their lives here.»

The relationship between depressive symptoms and step count has only been assessed in specific populations with small sample sizes, such as low - socioeconomic status Latino immigrants, 16 elderly Japanese people17 or patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure18 19 or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.20 21 Studies yield contradictory results, with some observing no association between depressive symptoms and daily step count, 19 21 while others report a negative correlation.16 — 18 20 In one cross-sectional sample of healthy older adults, an inverse association between depressive symptoms (using the Goldberg Depression Scale - 15) and accelerometer measured daily step count disappeared after controlling for general health and disability.22 While a systematic review suggests reduced levels of objectively measured PA in patients with depression, 23 it is not known whether this association is present in those at high risk of CVD and taken into account important confounding such as gender and age.

Immigrants and refugees are among the Early Learning Council's priority populations, and ensuring that priority populations have access to high - quality early learning programs is the charge of the ELC's All Families Served Subcommittee.

First, WLS respondents represent the non-Hispanic White population born around 1939 who graduated from a Wisconsin high school in 1957 (Sewell et al., 2004) and exclude individuals without a high school education, race / ethnic minorities, and immigrants.

This study demonstrates the high prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in a clinical population of Turkish immigrants and the pathogenic potential of marital problems.

To conclude then, it was shown that among young people in the immigrant populations studied here the preferred level of parental influence on mate choice was relatively high, and that opposition against mating with members of other ethnic groups was an important factor underlying the preferred level of parental influence on mate choice.

Compared to German samples, the assessed immigrant population showed an increased number of psychological symptoms and a higher rate (45 %) of mental disorders.

In a birth cohort study, risk of psychosis in adulthood was raised by a factor of 4 if the mother, during pregnancy, reported that a baby was unwanted.49 Separation from parents in early life has been found to predict an increased risk of psychosis in genetically vulnerable children, 50,51 and the association between immigrant status and severe mental illness may be at least partially explained by the high rates of early separation in migrant populations.52 Adolescents at high genetic risk of psychosis have also been found to be at increased risk of psychosis in later life if they report adverse relationships with their parents.53

Immigrants are almost half its population, giving it the highest share of foreign born in Canada, as well as one of the highest of major world cities.

«If recent shifts in immigration flows continue, an increase in higher - income immigrants — including rising numbers from China and India — could accelerate the demand for homeownership among the foreign - born population,» the report states.