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Immigration | Main Street Economics
Speak Your Piece: Dangers of Economic Isolation
07/01/2009

What are the economic costs to remaining isolated from a nation that is growing more diverse?

Broadband and Tech | Immigration
Many Rural Areas Making Digital TV Switch Early
02/13/2009

Congress agreed last week that conversion to digital television should be delayed. Many stations in rural areas are converting anyway.

Education | Immigration
Immigrant Families Reverse Iowa School Enrollments
11/21/2008
Student enrollment in Iowa's public schools has been declining for decades. That's about to change, according to the Des Moines Register. As immigrant families continue to come into the state, Iowa's schools expect Kindergarten students to outnumber graduating seniors for four of the next five years.

Enrollment in Iowa's schools peaked in the '70s. The number of students has declined since and last year's enrollment marked ten straight years of diminishing Iowa public school student populations. High birth rates among Hispanic immigrants will push more students into the schools — a fact that will both boost local school budgets and test teachers who will have more non-English speaking students. The number of students who were classified as English language learners more than doubled over the past decade, to about 3 percent of 2007-08 public school enrollment. The number of Hispanics living in Iowa has jumped 44 percent since 2000.
Growth and Development | Immigration
Immigrants in Nebraska Pay More in Taxes than They Receive in Services
10/21/2008
meatpackers thumbWhile the native born population in Nebraska has barely grown recently, the number of immigrants has increased by a third in just the last six years.
Growth and Development | Immigration
The Midwest: Minority-Majority Rural and Exurban Counties
09/17/2008
This is the Yonder's list of all rural and exurban counties in the Midwest that are already minority-majority or that will be minority-majority soon.
Growth and Development | Immigration
The West: Minority-Majority Rural and Exurban Counties
09/17/2008

This is the Yonder's list of all rural and exurban counties in the West that are already minority-majority or that will be minority-majority soon.

Growth and Development | Immigration
The South: Minority-Majority Rural and Exurban Counties
09/17/2008

This is the Yonder's list of all rural and exurban counties in the South that are already minority majority or that will be minority-majority soon.

Growth and Development | Immigration
Counties With Minorities In The Majority Grow In Rural America
09/17/2008
The number of counties where minority groups form a majority of the local population continues to rise in rural America. The Yonder lists all the U.S. rural counties where minorities are now (or will soon be) the majority.
Immigration | Main Street Economics
Midwest Meatpacking Towns Ponder Immigration Raids
09/16/2008
Towns in the Midwest that depend on immigrant labor are beginning to wonder what might happen if immigration raids come to their communities. The Kansas City Star lists the small meatpacking towns that have been reshaped by immigrant labor — Postville, Milan, Sedalia, Marshall and St. Joseph in Missouri; Dodge City, Garden City, Liberal and Ulysses in Kansas. "They've seen large immigrant populations alter their social fabric even as the labor has kept the meat industry running and local economies vibrant," writes Scott Canon.

A May 12 raid at Agriprocessors Inc. led to the detention of 389 workers; of those, 297 got five-month prison sentences. In other meatpacking towns, Canon found, residents worried about what would happen if similar raid took place in their communities.

"I hate to think what we'd do without them," said a local prosecutor in Milan, Missouri. "A raid like the one in Postville would have a devastating effect on the families and the communities they live in," said a Kansas City immigrant rights worker. "These are people who have come here and made real contributions."
Immigration
Miss. Raid Nation's Largest Despite E-Verify
08/28/2008
A raid by federal immigration officials at a factory in Laurel, Mississippi, early this week that ended in the arrest of nearly 600 immigrant workers has left both a community and a business in confusion. In today's Washington Post, we learned that the business where the immigrant workers were employed was using the government's latest system for verifying the status of prospective employees. Howard Industries was using the E-Verify system that is supposed to determine a person's eligibility to work. Firms now complain that the federal system provides them with no protection.

The raid was the largest in U.S. history. After the arrests, immigrant families kept their children home from school. (The AP reported that half of the local school district's Hispanic students stayed home the day after the crackdown.) Most of those arrested Monday were sent to a holding facility in Jena, Louisiana, splitting husbands from their families.

 

The raid resulted from a two year federal investigation. The AP reported that a local union member tipped off federal officials about Howard's hiring practices and that there have been tensions between local union officials and immigrant workers.

Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural
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