Sentences with phrase «smaller immigrant populations»

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.

Kentucky has a relatively small immigrant population, but it's increasing more quickly than many other states.

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A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked at data from the Survey of Business Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.

In a larger country with a smaller population, Canadian evangelicals are more likely to support sharing resources and welcoming immigrants and refugees; they are less likely to feel a sense of «manifest destiny» or to see their country as a Christian nation, according to Brian Stiller, the Ontario - based global ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance.

When they target / speak to small segments of the population like gays, minorities and immigrants they can become marginalized.

With immigrant populations in rural and small - town America on the rise, the answer, increasingly, is everywhere.

With one exception (immigrants benefited less than native - born students from a performance pay regime), I found only small differences in the impact of performance pay on the math achievement of subgroups in the population.

There had, indeed, been earlier signals: evidence of weak achievement by the country's small but growing immigrant and minority populations, as well as boys lagging way behind girls.

Importantly, the growth of immigrant populations in small - town America is presenting rural communities and institutions with challenges they couldn't have imagined even 10 years ago.

Regression models with nationally representative data revealed that children from Mexican immigrant families were overrepresented in parental care and underrepresented in center - based care compared to their native peers from other race / ethnic populations, which helped to explain a significant but small portion of their generally lower rates of both math achievement and externalizing symptoms in kindergarten.

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.

Though similar in number to Vancouver, immigrants represent a smaller but growing share of the region's population (roughly 23 percent).