Sentences with phrase «immigrant families did»

«Although the share of children in immigrant families did affect the child poverty rate in the analyses, the findings suggest that media coverage and public discussion on the effects of immigration on child poverty do not seem to correspond with the empirical evidence and are likely to overstate the issue.»

My immigrant family didn't have enough money to go out to dinner when we were growing up in NorCal.

Not exact matches

Rising prices for assets seem to make most people better off, unless they are renters, or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, or come from large families and don't inherit a home of their own, or get sick and need to pay for medical care, or get fired, or get their pension fund ripped off or otherwise fall outside what most people think of as the bell - shaped curve of good fortune.

This may work for some people, but it doesn't work for the family earning minimum wage, or the couple facing infertility, or this awesome church community of immigrants that shares the responsibility of child - rearing together.

What if we modeled the marriages, the families, care for the poor, and the treatment of the immigrant and the oppressed in a manner that demonstrates the heart of God as early Christians did?

We know immigrants who work two and three full time jobs, some who support family members to rise out of poverty, people who often do the hardest work without praise and acknowledgement.

I grew up as the daughter of Muslim immigrants in a very white part of Lanarkshire in Scotland and my family experienced the very good, the bad and the ugly so I really don't need a lecture thankseverso.

They don't just stand up for British people, they fight for immigrant families too.

And, they don't want illegal immigrants getting free college tuition while middle - class families get nothing but student loans that will take them years to repay.»

Workers, students, and family immigrants have to be dealt with, and that is precisely what we have been doing since we came to power.

The dispute is complicated by the fact the public school population is increasingly made up of low - income families, immigrants who do not speak English and students with disabilities.

The Independent Democratic Conference is happy to put its record of accomplishments — a $ 15 minimum wage, a $ 10 million dollar immigrant legal defense fund and the strongest paid family leave program in the nation — against the do nothing Working Families Party,» she said.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

«Like most New Yorkers, he doesn't believe taxpayers should cover the cost of free college tuition for illegal immigrants while hardworking, middle - class families here legally take out student loans that will take them years to repay,» a spokesman for Mr. Skelos, Scott Reif, said.

The event will feature a video introduction from national DREAM activist Jose Antonio Vargas and a Town Hall forum with Assemblyman Francisco, lead sponsor of the New York State Dream Act, to bring together undocumented New Yorkers to share their stories, ask questions, and learn what the next Public Advocate can do to empower immigrant families.

The next steps toward better understanding ACEs for Hispanic children from immigrant families, says Caballero, are to determine what, if any, resilience factors do exist and what traumas may be hidden or specific to the population in order to better guide policy and invest in resources that support those resilience factors and help address such traumas.

The amount of money that the AND receives from the food industry is fairly insignificant in terms of the AND's overall budget, but the work that thousands of registered dietitians are doing in under - served communities, with children and families, with the elderly, with immigrants in helping improve health is worth billions of dollars in terms of health care savings.

Particularly notable are the obsession with technology and surveillance from Benny's Video, here updated from VHS to smartphones and the Internet; the racial suspicion of Code Unknown; the revenge nightmare from Hidden; the euthanasia theme from Amour (which also featured Trintignant and Huppert as father and daughter, suggesting a sequel of sorts), as well as more general themes of family dysfunction and the obliviousness of the well - to - do towards immigrants — it's no coincidence that the film takes place in Calais, yet never once shows the Migrant Jungle.

The film, which chronicles the life of an immigrant and his family building an empire during one of the most violent years in New York City's history, required two lead actors with recognizable names who could also do some heavy lifting acting-wise.

The central problem of the picture has a lot to do with the idea that Cronenberg has again taken a pre-existing script and reordered it along distinctly Cronenbergian lines — that what must have read initially as a sociological text on another facet of the immigrant experience (much like screenwriter Steve Knight's Dirty Pretty Things) now plays like one of Cronenberg's investigations into the difficulty of parsing concepts like «normal» and «family» in the crushing crucible of bugs pretending to be human among humans.

The projects don't have to be games: Some students are using Storyboard That to create graphic novels, while others are interviewing immigrant family members and publishing the interviews on StoryCorps, a podcasting site for oral histories.

Undoubtedly, most nations count large numbers of students whose immigrant or minority families do not share a common historical experience.

«A common theme in research on immigration and education is that immigrant children often say they feel they are on their own because they don't have a lot of family resources,» Louie said, noting that «American schools are structured in a way so that parents are advocates of children.»

This webinar will examine what Miami - Dade has done to support its Latino students, including immigrant students and those whose families have been part of the community for generations.

Playing by the Rules When the System Doesn't: Immigrant Families and Summer School in New York This report discusses findings from surveys conducted during the summer of 2000 to assess the implementation and effectiveness of the Year 2000 Summer program, an integral part of the New York City Board of Education's updated promotion policy.

Why does it matter if immigrant families are split up?

This decision is vital because practices that deny or discourage immigrant children and families from public schooling do the following...

Although students from immigrant families are the fastest - growing segment of the ELL population, they don't account for all the children who are labeled English language learners.

She was candid in her assessment of what the local schools are doing — and not doing — to work with immigrant students and their families.

As many immigrants did, my great - grandparents came through Ellis Island in the late 19th century, where their families soon waded into the melting pot of Manhattan — into the land of elevated trains, skyscrapers, electric light and streetcars, as well as tenements, railroads and factories.

Then a colleague on the Canadian civil society delegation pointed out that it doesn't much serve climate justice, only shifts the locus of climate injustice, if developed countries accept financial responsibility for loss and damage — then see their historic wrongs paid for by a farmer in rural Britain or a first - or second - generation immigrant family in Calgary who pay their taxes, rather than a multinational fossil that doesn't.

This has been done with immigrant and family law and work is starting on criminal law.

Call an experienced US immigration attorney to know your options if your family member does not qualify for a family based immigrant visa.

An immigration lawyer will often represent an entire family in their aligned efforts to immigrate; sometimes, both the immigrant and a US citizen spouse are represented, even though the spouse does not actually need immigration services except in the capacity of a sponsor.

Immigration categories are shown for the three main groups of permanent residents — family class, economic immigrants, and refugees — as well as for «other» immigrants who do not qualify in any of these categories.

«The changes seem to turn immigrants into economic commodities and don't appear to take into consideration the family and societal values immigrants who may be excluded under the changes could bring to Canada,» says Mario Bellissimo.

Born to Italian immigrants, my Mom did what most 1st generation Italian - American kids do: she joined the family Environmental Drilling business (honestly, she probably started there around age 6 - labeling soil sample jars).

An immigrationattorney will outline do's and do nt's for schools serving immigrant students, and a McKinney - Vento liaison will share her practical strategies to help students and families.

Of the limited number of studies done on Chinese immigrants in North America in the areas of parenting and child development, several showed that Chinese immigrant families who had prolonged parent - child separation experienced elevated risks of socio - emo - tional and behavioral problems in the child, as well as strained parent - child rela - tionships [3][9][20].

To count as family, the members do not even need to live under the same roof (there are commuter marriages and «living apart together» arrangements, there are divorced families that extend across households, and immigrant families that reach across nations).

It may have something to do with the higher home prices, younger average age, or perhaps the family - reliant nature of some immigrant culture, 21 % of urban homebuyers say they plan to seek financial help from family for their down payment.

I'm getting all the people with sob stories, who barely make the minimum 3X rent, have past bankruptcies, have unreliable rental history (renting from family, or other «landlords» that seem questionable), people who smoke, illegal immigrants who work under the table and don't have verifiable income, etc. (the list goes on).