Just how well do Latino values and integration stack up against the typical United States citizen? Economist Tyler Cowen and Daniel M. Rothschild answer that here:
Despite claims to the contrary, census data show that most Latino immigrants learn and speak English quite well. Only about 2.5 percent of American residents speak Spanish but not English. […]
Archive for July, 2006
Jul31st2006
Latino Immigrant Values And Integration
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 0 CommentsJul31st2006
“There is a problem with his recommendation of the Jeffrey Sachs approach to alleviating poverty by sending taxed dollars to poor countries; it doesn’t seem to have worked so far. The experience with state-directed aid is not a very happy one and, if anything, has worked to increase poverty (and inequality), because it is directed […]
Jul29th2006
“Concerning slavery, Americans never invented it or instituted it – we inherited it, and with such great discomfort that anti-slavery activists were far better represented among the founding fathers (Franklin, Adams, Hamilton) than those who made an active case for slavery. David Brion Davis, the Yale professor who’s written magisterially about the history of the […]
Jul28th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Chicanoism, Discrimination, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and Minimum Wage. 0 Comments“My mother arrived in Britain penniless, but fortunately for her—and for Britain—no one sought to persuade her that she need not learn English, and no one set up expensive and ineffective services for her in case she did not. She was not obliged to give up her tastes or conform in private respects, but she […]
Jul27th2006
Free Economic Education Videos (In Arabic Too!)
Published by in Books, DayToDay, Economics and General. 1 CommentDevelopment Bank Research Bulletin blog composes a list of “several classical TV series that you can watch in the evening when you have some free time”, classics like, Milton Friedman’s PBS TV series: Free to Choose (1980 and 1990 version) and PBS TV series: Commanding Height. All free, all educational, all economics.
Highly recommended for […]
Jul27th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Economics, General, HealthCare, Poverty, SocialSecurity and Taxes. 0 Comments“If I were in charge of the budget, we would massively reform entitlements, transforming Social Security into a system of forced savings combined with a means-tested fallback for those too poor to save, or whose investments tanked at the wrong time. We would kill the whole Medicare/Medicaid debacle, along with the tax deduction for corporate-provided […]
Jul26th2006
The Difference Between ‘Old Europe’ And The United States
Published by in Economics, Europe, General and Taxes. 11 CommentsHistorian Thomas C. Reeves, writing in the History News Network, details the differences between ‘Old Europe’ and the United States:
The United States has moved far ahead of every European country in every significant economic category. As Olaf Gersemann recently pointed out, “Adjusted for differences in price levels, per capita income in the United States now […]
Jul26th2006
“Things are a lot different now, so that’s why I can’t be more than tentatively in favor of this, but we already know that what we have been trying to do since the 1960s has not worked in the way that Lyndon Johnson said it would. It has been about as successful as the Vietnam […]
Jul25th2006
President Bush Addresses NAACP Annual Convention
Published by in Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), ModernPolitics and Vouchers. 10 CommentsPresident Bush addressed the NAACP Annual Convention and these are some of the things he said:
I strongly believe that parental involvement is important for our school systems. (Applause.) And I believe — and I strongly believe a parent knows what’s best for his or her child. That’s what I believe. And therefore, when we find […]
Jul25th2006
“A star figure at the second annual Aspen Institute Ideas Festival - attended by several hundred, mainly liberal intellectual and financial glitterati - was Joel Klein, the former Clinton aide who is now chancellor of New York City public schools. Klein made a riveting case that teachers-union contracts are the main obstacle to improving urban […]
Jul24th2006
Why Such An Increase In Immigration?
Published by in Debates, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 5 CommentsThe Wall Street Journal has another econoblog debate and this time the topic is immigration.
Gordon Hanson, professor of economics at UCSD, answers why there has been such a drastic increase in Mexican immigration:
Mexican immigrants now account for about 5% of the U.S. labor force (and 35% of the immigrant labor force), up from less […]
Jul24th2006
“What is the biggest benefit that the relatively poor have experienced over the past two centuries? It is surely the terrific reduction in the cost of food. Two centuries ago, food was the biggest part in a family’s budget. It was hard for a poor family to get enough to eat. If there was a […]
Jul22nd2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Communism, Economics and General. 2 Comments“A headline in the San Francisco Chronicle offered this prescription for California’s problems: “The Golden State needs big, bold ideas to solve the puzzle its future presents.” But big bold ideas have been behind many — if not most — of California’s problems, as well as disasters in countries around the world”. –Thomas Sowell, listing […]
Jul21st2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Chicanoism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 2 Comments“But the good news is that these newcomers by and large aren’t listening to the left-wingers pushing identity politics. Mexican immigrants, like their European predecessors, are assimilating. Their children learn English and by the end of high school prefer it to their parents’ native tongue. They also marry people they meet here. Second-generation Latinos earn […]
Jul20th2006
Republicans Unveil $100 Million School Voucher Plan
Published by in Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 6 CommentsCNN is reporting:
Republicans unveil $100 million school voucher plan
WASHINGTON (AP) –Congressional Republicans on Tuesday proposed a $100 million plan to let poor children leave struggling schools and attend private schools at public expense.
The voucher idea is one in a series of social conservative issues meant to energize the Republican base as midterm elections approach. […]
Jul20th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Chicanoism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and affirmative action. 11 Comments“By far the largest concern we hear on the right concerns culture, especially the worry that the current Hispanic influx is so large it can resist the American genius for assimilation. Hispanics now comprise nearly a third of the population in California and Texas, the country’s two biggest states, and cultural assimilation does matter. This […]
