Guest workers: They’re not just picking vegetables anymore. A new class of “migrant workers” is taking shape in America’s Silicon Valley and other technology centers. These immigrants are not sneaking over U.S. bordersthey arrive by jet from India, the Philippines, China, and Taiwan to take jobs in computer programming, software design, and information services. And […]
Alexander Nguyen
Alexander Nguyen, a former Prospect writing fellow, is a student at Yale Law
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No Fanfare for Learnfare
This school year, Governor George Pataki of New York expanded Learnfare–a program making family-assistance grants contingent upon children’s attendance at school–to include all elementary schools in the state. After three unexcused absences, students on welfare must seek counseling. After four unexcused absences, their families lose $60 in monthly assistance, which they can earn back with […]
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The Souls of White Folk
When the U.S. Census Bureau asked residents to count off for the new millennium, sharp-eyed individuals noticed a slight oddity in the form’s race question: While Asians or Pacific Islanders could pick from among nine boxes (Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian, or Chamorro and Samoan), Caucasians had only one box […]
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The e-GOP
As the high-tech sector has grown as an industry, its bankroll of financial contributions to politicians has swollen as well (over $3.8 million so far this year). So it’s no surprise that presidential candidates are now flocking to Silicon Valley, or that firms like AOL and eBay are forming their own political action committees to […]
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Rising Tide?
“They almost have a nostalgic quality about them, sort of like the bell bottoms stuck in the back of the closet,” writes Jeffrey M. Berry of today’s quixotic and starry-eyed liberals. “But liberalism is not dead. Indeed, it’s thriving.” In The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups, Berry marshals copious evidence that over […]