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2023-04-03
Laal;
There was so much to capture this year at Laal! From our Reproductive Justice Initiative, Citizenship Prep, ESL, Wellness classes, and our successful Annual Gala-Laal Grishmo, The Red Summer, we kept our amazing followers up to date with Laal's progress within our community. We're still stunned by how much we've grown since starting in 2019! Our Annual Report covers topics like our finances and how we efficiently allocate our budget to provide resources to Bengali womxn in the Bronx; statistics of our Programs; and statistics from our 62 mental health surveys.
2023-03-27
Alliance for Securing Democracy;
This report outlines additional steps that Congress and state legislatures can take to mitigate existing electoral vulnerabilities and prevent threats from undermining future elections. Federal laws to protect election workers, for example, are urgently needed and are clearly the role of Congress. At the same time, states should lead by passing needed protections and playing their historic role as laboratories of innovative democracy. The laws recently passed at the state level that improve protections, expand funding, and increase penalties for those who threaten election workers serve as demonstrations of these programs' effectiveness that will hopefully build support for federal action.
2023-03-15
More in Common;
The Iraq War changed America and the world, yet its fingerprints appear barely visible in the minds and memories of most Americans. Twenty years after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, only 1 in 4 Americans "often" or "sometimes" think about the Iraq War and only 1 in 5 say the war changed their life. Further, when asked about major events from the war, few Americans are familiar with much beyond the invasion, capture of Saddam Hussein, and the withdrawal in 2011. These findings are stark considering the enormous costs of the war. Over 4,440 service members gave their lives and over 32,000 were wounded during the Iraq War (2003-2011), and the cost to the US Treasury was approximately $800 billion.The picture is more complex, however. While the Iraq War appears remote and invisible for most Americans, they want to learn about it. 77 percent of Americans – with little variation across demographics or ideology – feel it is important, as individuals, to learn about the Iraq War. But Americans are hesitant about whether such learning should be done at the national level. Only 41 percent feel the country needs to do more to publicly learn from the Iraq War and 32 percent say it's better for the country to put the Iraq War behind us and move on. Embedded in this hesitation are likely concerns that any public effort to grapple with the war will devolve into political battles to relitigate blame.
2023-05-01
Immigration Research Initiative;
There are 45 million immigrants living in the United States. Making up 14 percent of the national population, immigrants are a vital part of the social, economic, and cultural life of all American communities.The economic role of immigrants has frequently been misunderstood. On the one hand, immigrants are a big and important part of the economy. And, on the other hand, immigrants are disproportionately concentrated in low-wage jobs. Both things are true at the same time.
2023-03-13
More in Common;
A new report by More in Common finds that one year on from its launch the Homes for Ukraine scheme has been a broad success that should be celebrated and learned from. Drawing on public opinion research and a survey of over 1200 Homes for Ukraine hosts, More in Common finds:Â Support for the UK taking in refugees from Ukraine is strong and consistently so.The hosts' experience of the scheme has been overwhelmingly positive.Hosts and guests matched in a variety of ways.The community of hosts come from across British society.Most hosts are willing to continue hosting their guests, and would be willing to host new Ukrainian guests, either immediately or after a break.Hosts are open about the challenges they face and those their guests face as they settle in the UK.The key challenge hosts identified was the lack of support helping their guests to find appropriate alternative accommodation.Support from the government and local authorities has been patchy.There's an opportunity to build on the success of the Homes for Ukraine model across other welcoming efforts.
2023-03-16
Kids Count;
Every child deserves a quality education and the opportunity that comes with it. Compared to other states, however, Michigan does not ensure that kids—especially those in families with low incomes—grow up under conditions that support their success.Housing in particular is critical to children's achievement, but families with Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) and other non-wage sources of income often have a hard time finding landlords who will rent to them. Several Michigan communities protect renters from this type of discrimination. A similar state-level law would give all families with vouchers more options for safe housing in healthy, opportunity-rich neighborhoods. The resulting education benefits would promote bright futures for kids, a strong workforce and economic prosperity for the whole state.
2023-08-09
Rockefeller Archive Center;
This report examines the life and career of John B. Griffing to understand the larger transnational project of rural development in the twentieth century. Griffing had an eclectic career that took him to various parts of the United States, China, and Brazil. While Griffing's papers are scattered across multiple institutions and countries, collections from the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) were particularly useful in tracing the evolution of Griffing's ideas about rural development over time. At least two themes emerge when studying his career. The first is his views on religion and rural development. As the son of a small-town dairy farmer and grandson of a Methodist minister, Griffing found a way to blend these two influences by working as an "agricultural missionary" where he promoted agricultural improvement as a tool for spreading Christianity in China. His later work in Brazil focused less on proselytizing but he continued to champion the rural church as an effective center for agricultural change. The second theme is Griffing's emphasis on extension work and the importance of reaching rural youth through programs such as 4-H clubs. For Griffing, club work (which focused mostly on boys) was an effective way to cultivate a form of rugged masculinity, while also spreading new agricultural crops and practices to their parents.Â
2023-01-31
National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP);
The United States is experiencing a historic refugee crisis in the Western Hemisphere that has been cast as a border crisis, according to a National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis. Criticism of the increase in Border Patrol encounters has implied that individuals would not come to the United States if U.S. immigration policy were sufficiently harsh. However, the countries from which people are seeking refuge or employment in America have experienced economic and political upheavals. These upheavals or continuing violence and repression have created a large number of refugees.The best way to address illegal entry is to treat the current situation at the border as a historic refugee crisis and provide legal pathways for work and human rights protection.
2023-06-27
National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP);
Immigrants have founded or cofounded nearly two-thirds (65% or 28 of 43) of the top AI companies in the United States, and 70% of full-time graduate students in fields related to artificial intelligence are international students, according to a new National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis. Seventy-seven percent of the leading U.S.-based AI companies were founded or cofounded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. Forty-two percent (18 of 43) of the top U.S.-based AI companies had a founder who came to America as an international student.
2023-07-25
National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP);
Without continued net inflows of immigrants, the U.S. working-age population will shrink over the next two decades and by 2040, the United States will have over 6 million fewer working-age people than in 2022. Announcements of high-profile layoffs and concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) obscure America's continuing need for additional workers at the top and bottom of the skill distribution. International migration is the only potential source of growth in the U.S. working-age population in the coming years.The research involved analyzing data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including the Current Population Survey and the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
2023-04-19
James Bell Associates;
This Data in Action Brief maps evidence-based home visiting provided by tribal-led organizations in light of recent federal efforts to expand services to more American Indian Alaska Native (AIAN) families. In 2022, Congress expanded the federal Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (Tribal MIECHV) Program to account for 6 percent of MIECHV funds, rather than the previous 3 percent set aside.Tribal nation leaders, urban Native leaders, and community members have long advocated for resources to offset the negative impacts of genocide, colonization, historical trauma, systemic racism, and broken treaties by the U.S. government. MIECHV identifies families in tribes and urban Native communities as a priority population, in part to recognize these systemic harms and to honor the cultural heritage and sovereignty of Native nations. In this brief, we consider the degree to which tribal communities have been able to access—and chosen to implement—evidence-based home visiting services.
2023-06-26
National Immigrant Justice Center;
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched the Young Adult Case Management Program (YACMP) in January 2023 to target and monitor 18- and19-year-old youth who the agency deems "low flight risk" and "non-dangerous." ICE characterizes this program as an "Alternative to Detention," but the program's design makes clear that it will not decrease reliance on detention and instead increase the number of young people under government monitoring. Rather than work collaboratively with youth to match them with support services based on their individual needs, ICE unilaterally and arbitrarily enrolls youth in YACMP if they are facing immigration court proceedings and are not detained, irrespective of their specific needs.This policy brief examines: 1) who are the youth impacted by this new ICE program; 2) what this program entails and how it compares with traditional case management programs; and 3) what we know about the corporation ICE has contracted to run this program. It has recommendations for effective case management for impacted youth.