This document discusses comprehensive immigration reform and issues with the current system. It argues for reform that stops driving down wages, ends exploitation of immigrant workers, and protects jobs while rewarding employers who follow the rules. The current system creates a climate of fear through local enforcement laws, tears families apart, and allows employers to face minimal consequences. The document proposes reforms like restoring community trust, holding employers accountable, implementing tamper-proof documents, and creating a universal verification system only used at hiring. Comprehensive reform requires both enforcement and a roadmap to citizenship.
2015 Prescription for America Rebrand and RebuildDarrell Prince
Political platform for transformation of the nation, wide spread change, something to organize people who want a better future, better economics, and a better legal system, with tighter adherence to a simpler doctine including the Constitution and the Declaration
Here is the framework of a bipartisan group of senators' immigration reform plan they say will secure the border, modernize the country's current immigration system and create a "tough but fair" path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants already in the country. http://www.h1b.biz visit
Law is a rule of conduct with binding legal force and effect which is recognized and enforced by a government or controlling authority. Laws can be amended and changed over time. Federal laws apply to everyone in the United States. “State and local laws can vary by location and apply to people who live and work in a particular state, town, county, city, or municipality.” Says Attorney Miya Griggs.
Empowerment of women and Legal Provision
Dr. Vibhuti Patel,
Director, PGSR & Professor & Head,
Department of Economics, SNDT Women’s University,
Churchgate, Mumbai-400020.
E-mail- vibhuti.np@gmail.com Phone-91-022-26770227, mobile-9321040048
The constitutional guarantees for empowerment of women
The constitutional guarantees for empowerment of women are as follows:
Fundamental Rights ensure empowerment of women thro’
Article 14- equal rights and opportunities for men and women in the political, economic and social sphere
Article 15- prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sex, religion, caste etc
Article 15(3)- empowers the State to take affirmative measures for women
Article 16- provides for equality of opportunities in the matter of public appointments
The directive Principals ensure empowerment of women thro’
• Article 39- enjoins the state to provide an
– adequate means of livelihood to men and women and
– Equal pay for equal work
– Article 42- State to ensure the provision for just and humane condition of work and maternity relief.
• Fundamental duties
• Article 51v (A) (e) - fundamental duty on every citizen to renounce the practices derogatory to the dignity of women.
• Financial Accountability
• Article 151- reports relating to the accounts of the Union and states to be prepared and placed before the Parliament and State legislatures respectively.
Articulation of the demands and alternatives suggested by the women’s movement constantly refer to the Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of India such as
Article 14- equal rights and opportunities for men and women in the political, economic and social sphere
Article 15- prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sex, religion, caste etc
Article 15(3) that empowers the State to take affirmative measures for women
Article 16 that provides for equality of opportunities in the matter of public appointments
When the government of India signed the UN charter on Equality, Development and Peace in 1975, the process of gender audit in the governance got an official stamp. In 1976, the Equal Remuneration Act was enacted to provide equal opportunities, equal treatment and equal wages for work of similar nature. NGOs have been consistently doing public scrutiny of Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 and specific provisions for women in general labour laws, The Factories Act, 1948 – Section 34 provides that the State government can lay down rules prescribing weights that may be carried by men and women, The Contract Labour (Abolition and Regulation) Act and Rules- that separate provision of utilities for women and fixed working hours.
Though these laws have proper implementation mechanisms, there is no provision for monitoring the effect of these laws on women. Allowance for special provisions for women have often proven to be detrimental to their employment opportunities. Participation of workingwomen in the decision-making processes in the industrial and agrarian relations is abysmally low. Women’s access to legal service largely remains inadequate in spite of the legal service Act, 1987.
2015 Prescription for America Rebrand and RebuildDarrell Prince
Political platform for transformation of the nation, wide spread change, something to organize people who want a better future, better economics, and a better legal system, with tighter adherence to a simpler doctine including the Constitution and the Declaration
Here is the framework of a bipartisan group of senators' immigration reform plan they say will secure the border, modernize the country's current immigration system and create a "tough but fair" path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants already in the country. http://www.h1b.biz visit
Law is a rule of conduct with binding legal force and effect which is recognized and enforced by a government or controlling authority. Laws can be amended and changed over time. Federal laws apply to everyone in the United States. “State and local laws can vary by location and apply to people who live and work in a particular state, town, county, city, or municipality.” Says Attorney Miya Griggs.
Empowerment of women and Legal Provision
Dr. Vibhuti Patel,
Director, PGSR & Professor & Head,
Department of Economics, SNDT Women’s University,
Churchgate, Mumbai-400020.
E-mail- vibhuti.np@gmail.com Phone-91-022-26770227, mobile-9321040048
The constitutional guarantees for empowerment of women
The constitutional guarantees for empowerment of women are as follows:
Fundamental Rights ensure empowerment of women thro’
Article 14- equal rights and opportunities for men and women in the political, economic and social sphere
Article 15- prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sex, religion, caste etc
Article 15(3)- empowers the State to take affirmative measures for women
Article 16- provides for equality of opportunities in the matter of public appointments
The directive Principals ensure empowerment of women thro’
• Article 39- enjoins the state to provide an
– adequate means of livelihood to men and women and
– Equal pay for equal work
– Article 42- State to ensure the provision for just and humane condition of work and maternity relief.
• Fundamental duties
• Article 51v (A) (e) - fundamental duty on every citizen to renounce the practices derogatory to the dignity of women.
• Financial Accountability
• Article 151- reports relating to the accounts of the Union and states to be prepared and placed before the Parliament and State legislatures respectively.
Articulation of the demands and alternatives suggested by the women’s movement constantly refer to the Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of India such as
Article 14- equal rights and opportunities for men and women in the political, economic and social sphere
Article 15- prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sex, religion, caste etc
Article 15(3) that empowers the State to take affirmative measures for women
Article 16 that provides for equality of opportunities in the matter of public appointments
When the government of India signed the UN charter on Equality, Development and Peace in 1975, the process of gender audit in the governance got an official stamp. In 1976, the Equal Remuneration Act was enacted to provide equal opportunities, equal treatment and equal wages for work of similar nature. NGOs have been consistently doing public scrutiny of Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 and specific provisions for women in general labour laws, The Factories Act, 1948 – Section 34 provides that the State government can lay down rules prescribing weights that may be carried by men and women, The Contract Labour (Abolition and Regulation) Act and Rules- that separate provision of utilities for women and fixed working hours.
Though these laws have proper implementation mechanisms, there is no provision for monitoring the effect of these laws on women. Allowance for special provisions for women have often proven to be detrimental to their employment opportunities. Participation of workingwomen in the decision-making processes in the industrial and agrarian relations is abysmally low. Women’s access to legal service largely remains inadequate in spite of the legal service Act, 1987.
Presentation by Okereke Happiness Ngozi at the second annual Nigerian Tax Research Network meeting which took place in Abuja on 24th and 25th November 2018.
In the second term President Obama is going in great speed to tackle immigration issues on a top priority. After Ronald Reagan undertook some drastic reforms in immigration in 1986, no other President has been successful in going the whole hog with an ambitious agenda of immigration reforms combining accommodation, enforcement and encouragement of meritorious external talent.
Economics in the Quest for Pakistan’s SecurityUsman W. Chohan
Economics in the Quest for Pakistan’s Security - Presentation by Dr. Usman W. Chohan, Director, Economics & National Affairs, Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS). Presented at Serena Hotel at a CASS seminar.
Pakistan’s Tax Architecture - The Core of Economic SecurityUsman W. Chohan
Pakistan's tax architecture needs to be fixed, for the economy, for society, and for national and regional security. We point to economic challenges and propose economic reforms. Presentation was prepared at the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS).
Social welfare and the rate structure a new look at progressiveZiaullah Mirza
Social Welfare and the Rate Structure: A New Look at Progressive Taxation
Joseph Bankman and Thomas Griffith, Social Welfare and the Rate Structure: A New Look at Progressive Taxation, 75 California Law Review 1905-1968 (December 1987).
The System is Broken
Everyone can agree that we don’t have a common-sense immigration process in place.
Many have questions about what the solution is, or how it’d benefit America’s workers.
Let’s explore some common myths about immigration and then talk about our campaign for reform.
Minimum Wage Laws: 5 Trends Affecting Your Labor Law Compliance ProgramGovDocs, Inc.
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Presentation by Okereke Happiness Ngozi at the second annual Nigerian Tax Research Network meeting which took place in Abuja on 24th and 25th November 2018.
In the second term President Obama is going in great speed to tackle immigration issues on a top priority. After Ronald Reagan undertook some drastic reforms in immigration in 1986, no other President has been successful in going the whole hog with an ambitious agenda of immigration reforms combining accommodation, enforcement and encouragement of meritorious external talent.
Economics in the Quest for Pakistan’s SecurityUsman W. Chohan
Economics in the Quest for Pakistan’s Security - Presentation by Dr. Usman W. Chohan, Director, Economics & National Affairs, Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS). Presented at Serena Hotel at a CASS seminar.
Pakistan’s Tax Architecture - The Core of Economic SecurityUsman W. Chohan
Pakistan's tax architecture needs to be fixed, for the economy, for society, and for national and regional security. We point to economic challenges and propose economic reforms. Presentation was prepared at the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS).
Social welfare and the rate structure a new look at progressiveZiaullah Mirza
Social Welfare and the Rate Structure: A New Look at Progressive Taxation
Joseph Bankman and Thomas Griffith, Social Welfare and the Rate Structure: A New Look at Progressive Taxation, 75 California Law Review 1905-1968 (December 1987).
The System is Broken
Everyone can agree that we don’t have a common-sense immigration process in place.
Many have questions about what the solution is, or how it’d benefit America’s workers.
Let’s explore some common myths about immigration and then talk about our campaign for reform.
Minimum Wage Laws: 5 Trends Affecting Your Labor Law Compliance ProgramGovDocs, Inc.
Minimum wage is a popular topic these days. Check out our SlideShare to understand how these trends could be affecting your labor law compliance program.
Illegal immigration costs the taxpayers of California - which has th.docxrochellscroop
Illegal immigration costs the taxpayers of California - which has the highest number of illegal aliens nationwide - $10.5 billion a year for education, health care and incarceration, according to a study released yesterday.
A key finding of the report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) said the state's already struggling kindergarten-through-12th-grade education system spends $7.7 billion a year on children of illegal aliens, who constitute 15 percent of the student body.
The report also said the incarceration of convicted illegal aliens in state prisons and jails and uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to illegal aliens each amounted to about $1.4 billion annually. The incarceration costs did not include judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the crimes committed by illegal aliens that led to their incarceration.
"California's addiction to 'cheap' illegal-alien labor is bankrupting the state and posing enormous burdens on the state's shrinking middle-class tax base," said FAIR President Dan Stein.
"Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become," he said.
California is estimated to be home to nearly 3 million illegal aliens.
Mr. Stein noted that state and local taxes paid by the unauthorized immigrant population go toward offsetting these costs, but do not match expenses. The total of such payments was estimated in the report to be about $1.6 billion per year.
He also said the total cost of illegal immigration to the state's taxpayers would be considerably higher if other cost areas, such as special English instruction, school meal programs or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal-alien workers were added into the equation.
Gerardo Gonzalez, director of the National Latino Research Center at California State at San Marcos, which compiles data on Hispanics, was critical of FAIR's report yesterday. He said FAIR's estimates did not measure some of the contributions that illegal aliens make to the state's economy.
"Beyond taxes, these workers' production and spending contribute to California's economy, especially the agricultural sector," he said, adding that both legal and illegal aliens are the "backbone" of the state's $28 billion-a-year agricultural industry.
In August, a similar study by the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, said U.S. households headed by illegal aliens used $26.3 billion in government services during 2002, but paid $16 billion in taxes, an annual cost to taxpayers of $10 billion.
The FAIR report focused on three specific program areas because those were the costs examined by researchers from the Urban Institute in 1994, Mr. Stein said. Looking at the costs of education, health care and incarceration for illegal aliens.
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Read the case study: "The Economics of Immigration: A Story of Substitutes and Complements
E." Then, pick one of the following states to be the Governor of:
California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Vermont, or Louisiana
Once you pick a state, answer the following questions:
Make sure to use at least two of the economic concepts in this week's readings in your discussion
to obtain full credit. Examples include supply, demand, complements, efficiency, substitutes, etc.
Identify the concepts you are using in your post to obtain a full credit and remember - number
matter the back story on front page economics NEWSLETTER May =2014 The Economics of
Immigration: A Story of Substitutes and Complements Scott A. Wolla, Senior Economic
Education Specialist "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe
frae"- Emma Lazarus America is a nation of immigrants. Currently, immigrants make up about
13 percent of the overall population, which means about 40 million people living in the United
States are foreign born.' Indeed, nearly all Americans have an immigration story in their family
history. Yet, despite their history and a culture of immigration. Americans have mixed feelings
about whether the country should keep its welcome mat out on the doorstep. A 2014 Gallup poll
reports 72 percent of Americans believe immigration is a good thing, but 36 percent would like
to see the level of immigration dectease, 2 Economists, who focus on economic costs and
benefits, are generally more supportive of immigration than the general public. NOTE: The share
of the labor forte that is foreign bom has increased over time. Athough the shave dropped buring
the most recent recession II5.1 percent in February 2009, the share had increased to 16.3 perent
as af March 2014. The gay bar indicates the 260709 recossion as determined by the National
Bureau of Economic Research.
The Economics of Immigration In many ways, the arguments about the economics of
immigration are similar to those about the economics of international trade. Economists typically
reason that voluntary trade is mutually beneficial-if it were not, the trade partners would not
pursue trade. Economists therefore generally support free and open trade of goods and services
across national borders. In a similar way, economists think of immigration as mutually beneficial
"trade" between immigrants and their employers. And as with trade, both the immigrant workers
and their employers generally benefit. Not surprisingly, economists generally support free and
open immigration. Immigration increases labor resources, which increase the productive capacity
of the economy, Currently, foreign-born workers make up 16.3 percent of the labor force (see the
chart). Stated differently, the increase in labor resources increases the economy's ability to
produce goods and services. But how does immigration affect the average American? Once the
costs and benefits are weighed, economists estimate the ann.
This section of Solutions for America highlights the key issues surrounding current immigration legislation and offers reasons to upgrade the current policies.
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Response one PADM-05
Mortgage interest rates are expected to rise considerably in 2018. If the economy grows too fast, The Federal Reserve will have to raise interest rates faster than expected. That could make borrowing money more expensive. If that happens, the likelihood of a recession increases. Not only would this drive up interest rates, but reduce private sector investments and diminish the country's creditworthiness. When inflation is too low, it can hurt the economy. Businesses get queasy about investing in people and equipment. If prices don't rise, wages don't either. But out-of-control inflation can also be harmful. As I see it, the current fiscal path is unsustainable. The Republican tax cuts could not come at a worse time, and I think it will hasten inflation and prematurely bring a recession.
The effectiveness of mortgage interest rates rising is in my opinion, is nonexistent. It is like a dog chasing its own tail. With the passage of the tax reform bill, which essentially lowered the income tax rate, the Federal Reserve raised or is raising mortgage interest rates. So, this essentially takes the money that was saved by paying lower income tax and essentially puts it toward paying the cost associated with a higher mortgage. True, not everyone owns a home. But if you plan to buy one, this will make it considerably more expensive. The efficiency of raising mortgage interest rates is has both equal value and detriment. Keeping mortgage rates low allows more people to afford housing, stimulating the economy. By raising interest rates, the cost of owning a home is more and less people purchase homes, which is a key sign of inflation. Either way, I believe the policy on raising or lowering mortgage interest rates is ethical - the entire point is to maintain a healthy, balanced economy. The equity, or measure of fairness, depends largely on who stands to gain the most. In the case of our current economy, it's without question that that the restructuring of our tax code largely benefits the ultra wealthy. Had the entire country benefited equally from the tax reforms, then it would have been more equitable. The 2018 tax reform brought little political feasibility, as both political parties were at opposite ends of the restructure. Nonetheless, a compromise was reached. There was little social acceptability or public acceptance from this policy change, and many will end up paying considerably more tax because of it. I believe the administrative feasibility caught citizens off guard. I knew little to nothing of the tax reform until it actually happened. Whatever the case, the government reluctantly came together and enacted the policy. I do not know how technical feasibility plays into all of this, but I could only assume that the Federal Reserve had considerable reservations about the policy due to the fact that inflation will likely rise and mortgage interest rates will go up just because of it.
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ABOUT THIS REPORT
This initial report was produced by Institute for Policy Studies staff in support of the Poor People’s Campaign: A
National Call for Moral Revival (www.PoorPeoplesCampaign.org). This campaign, marking the 50th anniversary of
the Poor People’s Campaign led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders, aims to build a broad and
deep national movement rooted in the leadership of the poor and dispossessed as moral agents and reflecting the
great moral teachings to unite our country around a transformative agenda to combat poverty, racism, militarism,
and ecological devastation. We worked in collaboration with the Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, Rev. Dr.
William J. Barber, II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, and the Tri-Chairs of the Campaign's Audit Committee, Rev. Dr.
James Forbes, Dr. Tim Tyson, and Shailly Gupta Barnes.
In the coming months, the Institute for Policy Studies will work with the Poor People’s Campaign to conduct a much
more in-depth “audit” of the structural and systemic causes for what Dr. King called the “Triplets of Evil” — racism,
extreme materialism, and militarism — as well as the interrelated problem of ecological destruction. To learn lessons
for today, we will be hearing testimony and interviewing leaders who’ve been in the middle of the key struggles
for progress of the past 50 years. This analysis will feed into the new Poor People’s Campaign’s efforts to advance
structural solutions to the multiple crises of today.
The Maternity and paternity at work: Law and practice across the world report reviews national legislative provisions on maternity protection at work in 185 countries and territories (including leave, benefits, employment protection, health protection, breastfeeding arrangements at work and childcare), statistical coverage in law and in practice of paid maternity
leave as well as statutory provision of paternity, parental and adoption leaves. It shows how well national laws and practice conform to the ILO Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183), its accompanying Recommendation (No. 191) and the Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention, 1981 (No. 156). The report is based on the ILO Working Conditions
Laws Database – Maternity Protection and an ILO statistical methodology to estimate coverage in law and in practice.
The first part of the study covers four key aspects of maternity leave provisions, in Chapter 2: the duration, the benefit paid; the source of funding and the scope. It compares the legal provisions in 185 countries and territories with the most recent ILO standards, both separately and combined by region. This assessment shows, within the limitations of the data available, that globally 34 per cent (57 countries) fully meet the requirements of Convention No. 183 on three key aspects: they provide for at least 14 weeks of leave at a rate of at least two thirds of previous earnings, paid by social insurance or public funds or in a manner determined by national law and practice where the employer is not solely responsible for payment. The regions with the highest proportion of countries in conformity with these aspects of the Convention are Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the Developed Economies. Conformity is particularly low in Asia and the Middle East, while not more than 20 per cent of the total meets the standards in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean.
This manual is the result of several years of ACTRAV’s efforts in support of trade unions working to eradicate all forms of child labour. The scourge of child labour remains a challenge today.
Even though we have made progress in the recent past, there are still some 168 million children in child labour across the world. This is not acceptable. We have to renew our efforts in this fight against the exploitation of the weakest in society.
Trade unions have always been engaged in this fight against child labour. Through successive programs, ACTRAV has provided technical and financial
support to these unions. This manual draws on a number of lessons learnt from several years of ACTRAV’s engagement in this area of work. The manual therefore focuses on the added value of trade unions in the fight against child labour. Hence, unlike other guides in the past, it places an emphasis on ways
of engagement in the fight against child labour which best suits trade unions.
Strategic areas where trade unions have a natural disposition to make a difference to the global effort to fight child labour identified in this manual include, influencing national socio-economic policies through engagement with governments; using organising strategies and collective bargaining as a means of tackling child labour; using the ILO supervisory system to effect change in national laws and practices dealing with child labour; and participation in national and international campaigns against child labour.
The manual also provides unions with an up-to-date understanding of what child labour is today and the need for an official trade union policy to tackle it.
Another important novelty of this manual is that it presents a wide array of examples of concrete trade union actions to tackle child labour. These examples in the manual are not presented as models for all unions to follow. Rather, they are in the manual firstly to indicate that it is possible for unions to engage in the
fight against child labour. Secondly, they are here as examples to inspire other unions to develop their own country-specific actions against child labour. ACTRAV expresses its appreciation to all those who have contributed to the development of this manual. Particular thanks go to Ms Nora Wintour who drafted the manual and to colleagues in ACTRAV and IPEC who provided comments on successive drafts. We are confident that this manual will be a useful tool for trade unions in their engagement in the fight against child labour.
Maria Helena Andre
Director
Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV)
With increased public attention
being given to significant labour
rights violations, including child
labour and forced labour, in the South East Asian
seafood supply chain, the industry has come
under increasing pressure to put immediately
into place robust and sustainable systems
to ensure that all labour right violations are
prevented and if identified, properly addressed.
The violations have been found all along the
chain- from the fishing vessels, to land-based
aquaculture, through to primary and secondary
seafood processing. Addressing these labour
issues in a supply chain that is so widespread,
complex and mobile – where boats can be at
sea for months on end – is a challenge. Poorly
regulated migration, and poorly functioning
labour market institutions exacerbate these
problems
Most of the approximately 2,500 individuals sentenced as juveniles to life without the possibility of parole now have a chance for release in the wake of recent Supreme Court decisions. The choice to allow teenagers to receive the harshest
available sentence is not shared among all states.
Eighteen states have banned life sentences without the possibility of parole for juveniles; in a handful of other states,
no one is serving the sentence. Following the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Miller v. Alabama, states and the federal government are required to consider the unique circumstances of each juvenile defendant in determining an
individualized sentence. Montgomery v. Louisiana,2
a 2016 decision, ensures that the decision applies
retroactively. For juveniles, a mandatory life sentence
without the possibility of parole, is unconstitutional.
Research on adolescent brain development confirms
the commonsense understanding that children
are different from adults in ways that are critical to
identifying age appropriate criminal sentences. This
understanding – Justice Kennedy called it what
“any parent knows”3 – was central to four recent
Supreme Court decisions excluding juveniles from
the harshest sentencing practices. The most recent,
Montgomery, emphasized that the use of life without
parole (mandatorily or not) should only be reserved for
those juveniles whose offenses reflected “irreparable
corruption,”4 a ruling that Justice Scalia (in dissent)
wrote may eventually “eliminat[e] life without parole
for juvenile offenders.”5
Between 2007 and 2011, 10.9 million homes went into foreclosure. These foreclosures not only have harmed the families that experienced them, they also have had negative effects that extend to the neighborhood, community and wider economy. There are myriad indirect costs of foreclosures, but in this report we focus on one: the economic impact on neighboring homeowners who lose property value as a result of being in close proximity to foreclosures.
This brief is the fourth in a series, updating our last report that was issued in 2009. In this report we estimate not only the total “spillover” cost, but that portion of the cost borne by neighborhoods of color. Our key findings, based on loans that entered foreclosure between 2007 and 2011:
• $1.95 trillion in property value has been lost or will be lost by residents who live in close proximity to foreclosures.2 These losses include both the spillover impact of homes that have completed the foreclosure process and future losses that will result from homes that have started but not yet completed the foreclosure process.
• Over one-half of the spillover loss is associated with communities of color.3 Minority neighborhoods have lost or will lose $1 trillion in home equity as a result of spillover from homes that have started the foreclosure process, reflecting the high concentrations of foreclosures in neighborhoods of color.
• On average, families affected by nearby foreclosures have already lost or will lose $21,077 in household wealth, representing 7.2 percent of their home value, by virtue of being in close proximity to foreclosures. Families impacted in minority neighborhoods have lost or will lose, on average, $37,084 or 13.1 percent of their home value.
Importantly, these losses represent only the wealth that has been lost or will be lost as a direct result of being in close proximity to homes that have begun the foreclosure process. We do not include in our estimate the total loss in home equity that has resulted from the crisis (estimated at $7 trillion),
the negative impact on local governments (from lost tax revenue and increased costs of managing vacant properties) or the non-financial spillover costs, such as increased crime, reduced school performance and neighborhood blight.
Balloon clowns and activities for all ages
Children of all ages were treated to free food and drink
Additional Treats included:
•Popcorn
•Popsicles & Ice cream
•Fruit Juice
•Punch
•Water
The CSE 101 Workshop will take 1 hour, 20 minutes,
divided as follows:
Welcome, Introductions and
Group Agreements 5 minutes
Lived Experience Exercise 10 minutes
PowerPoint Presentation 25 minutes
Victory Video 5 minutes
Campaign Overview 10 minutes
Recruiting People to Take Action 20 minutes
Campaign Next Steps,
Contact Form and Conclusion 5 minutes
In this section, we will be looking at:
a historical view of the rules of the economy—how the choices made throughout our nation’s history have changed who benefited from the economy and how;
how the neoliberal agenda is driving policy changes that benefit CEOs and the top 1% in our country, creating an economy out of balance;
how we can build power to change the rules to create an economy that works for everyone.
But what do we mean by “the economy?”
You know, a lot of people talk about the economy like it’s a force of nature—something that happens to us, like the weather.
That’s not true. The economy is a result of deliberate policy choices made by powerful people. We can make different choices. That’s what we’re going to look at in more detail.
More than 15 years ago, the AFL-CIO introduced a mass economics education program that
was received with great enthusiasm by labor leaders, activists and rank-and-file members who
craved a deeper understanding of the political nature of the U.S. economy. Since that time,
we’ve seen the largest redistribution of wealth in our nation’s history and a Great Recession
that paralyzed communities, families and workers. Still, many believe the economy is a force of
nature and not created by people in power.
Common Sense Economics is a tool for getting people involved in campaigns in their
communities and states to make the economy work for all of us, and not just for big
corporations. To accomplish this, we break down the myth that the economy cannot be
changed. Diverse audiences for Common Sense Economics include union and community
activists.
Productive employment and decent work are key elements to achieving a reduction in poverty.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has developed an agenda for putting the Decent
Work Agenda into practice through four strategic pillars, namely, employment, rights at work,
social protection and social dialogue, with gender equality as a cross-cutting objective.
The ILO notes in its Global Wage Report 2014/2015 that while the income of low-income groups
has been raised through direct employment programmes in South Africa, the most effective and
sustainable route out of poverty for the working-age population is a productive job that is fairly
paid. The report further notes that there has been a decline in real wages and a rise in inequality
because the income growth of the bottom poorest households stagnated in real terms, while that
of more affluent households continued to increase.
The ILO Africa is supportive of the decision of the South African government to investigate
the possibility of a National Minimum Wage (NMW) as one of the key mechanisms to reduce
income inequality.
The collaboration with Labour Research Service in Cape Town, South Africa to produce this booklet
is geared towards assisting the labour movement in its endeavour to achieve a minimum wage
system that contributes to poverty eradication and decent work.
‘First they outsourced the janitorial and
catering work and we didn’t speak out because
we weren’t representing cleaning workers.
Then they outsourced the security jobs, and
we didn’t speak out because we weren’t
representing the security services.
Then they outsourced the transport and
maintenance services, and we didn’t speak out
because we weren’t representing workers in
transportation and maintenance.
Then they outsourced our work, and there was
no one left to speak for us.’
People move for a wide variety of individual reasons. But there have been two moments in U.S. history in which millions of people came to this country at the same time.
What kinds of large-scale disruptions cause millions of people to move at the same time?
These are both times of global economic upheaval. The industrial revolution caused a massive economic shift across the world, from agricultural economies to urban/industrial economies, realignments of global power, and millions of economic and political refugees.
Today, we are confronted with a global refugee crisis of unprecedented levels,
a crisis that, as shown in this report, deeply affects the Western Hemisphere.
No one knows this better than those fleeing epidemic levels of violence,
including gender-based violence, in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.1
Research conducted over four months found that women face a startling degree
of violence that has a devastating impact on their daily lives. With no protection
at home, women flee to protect themselves and their children from murder,
extortion, and rape. They present a clear need for international protection.
Based on US Department of Homeland Security data covering FY 2015, of
the thousands of women and girls from these countries who expressed a fear
of being returned to their home country and were subject to the credible fear
screening process, US authorities have found that a large percentage have a
significant possibility of establishing eligibility for asylum or protection under the
Convention against Torture.2
A surging tide of violence sweeping across El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
forces thousands of women, men, and children to leave their homes every month.
This region of Central America, known as the Northern Triangle (“Northern Triangle
of Central America” or “NTCA”), is one of the most dangerous places on earth.3
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The imprisonment of human beings at record levels is both a moral failure and an economic one—especially at a time when more and more Americans are struggling to make ends meet and when state governments confront enormous fiscal crises. This report finds, however, that mass incarceration provides a gigantic windfall for one special interest group—the private prison industry—even as current incarceration levels harm the country as a whole. While the nation’s unprecedented rate of imprisonment deprives individuals of freedom, wrests loved ones from their families, and drains the resources of governments, communities, and taxpayers, the private prison industry reaps lucrative rewards. As the public good suffers from mass incarceration, private prison companies obtain more and more government dollars, and private prison executives at the leading companies rake in enormous compensation packages, in some cases totaling millions of dollars.
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What distinguishes UAW members and our brothers and sisters in other unions from the mostly non-unionized workforce is that we are organized and can bargain contracts that positively impact not only us and our families, but also those non-unionized employees and our country’s economy in the resulting positive ripple effect.
But how much do you know about the collective bargaining process that results in an agreement that sets your take home pay, the health care you and your loved ones rely on, the paid time off you receive, your path to promotion – and so much more?
This is a resources that we hope will provide a basic understanding about your collective bargaining rights. Please contact your local union to find out how you can learn even more.
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This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
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Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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6. Comprehensive immigration reform:
Stops driving down wages
Ends the underground economy that tramples on immigrant workers’
rights
Protects good jobs & rewards high-road employers
Boost our economy & creates jobs
THE SOLUTION
7. THE CAMPAIGN
FOR CITIZENSHIP
Throughout
America’s history,
people around the
world have moved
here to work hard
in order to make
life better for the
next generation.
We need a process
that reflects the
values our nation
was founded on –
one that rewards
people who work
hard and make a
contribution to
our communities
and protects ALL
workers.
9. 1. Fair adjustment of status through
a roadmap to citizenship
2. Effective work authorization
mechanism
3. Rational, humane control of the
border
4. Independent commission to
assess labor market shortages
5. Improvement, not expansion, of
temporary worker programs like
the H1-B and H2-B programs
LABOR’S UNITY FRAMEWORK
10. WHITE HOUSE PRINCIPLES
Continue to strengthen border security
Crack down on employers who hire undocumented workers
Create a roadmap to citizenship
Streamline our legal immigration system
11. SENATE “GANG OF 8” PRINCIPLES
Create a tough but fair path to citizenship for
unauthorized immigrants currently living in the United
States
Reform our legal immigration system in a way that will
help build the American economy
Create an effective employment verification system that
will prevent identity theft and end the hiring of future
unauthorized workers
Establish an improved process for admitting future
workers to serve our nation’s workforce needs, while
simultaneously protecting all workers
12. Defined as all enforcement not done at the border
By employers:
Worksite verification through inspection of documents and E-verify
By governments:
Usually local and state governments in conjunction with ICE via S-
COMM & 287(g) agreements, which have made communities afraid to
report crime
Racial profiling provisions such as 2(b) of Arizona’s SB 1070
INTERIOR ENFORCEMENT
21. E-verify without a roadmap to citizenship creates a costly
system that’s ineffective
Costs small businesses $2.6 billion to use
It’s 54% inaccurate; false negative errors more likely to occur
with foreign-born employees
Mandatory e-verify without a roadmap to citizenship leads to
more misclassification
E-VERIFY
22. Employers sometimes use I-9 audits to chill workplace
disputes or organizing campaigns
Modern-day version of “raids”
Alert ICE, DOL and the employer in the case of an audit during
organizing drive
Contact AFL-CIO Immigration Team for assistance during an I-
9 audits
I-9 AUDITS
24. Restore community trust & eliminate drain on local
jurisdictions
Hold employers accountable for violations
Make government, not employers, the agents policing
immigration
Implement tamper-proof documents
Close loopholes
Create universal system that everyone uses
One-time verification at hiring, NOT during union organizing
Part of comprehensive solution that includes roadmap to
citizenship
REFORM
That week we talked about the need to create a roadmap to citizenship as an essential part of comprehensive immigration reform.
Citizenship allows hard-working, immigrants who love this country and want to contribute to be fully-participating citizens. When we remove the fear of deportation and give workers a voice on the job and in the voting booth, we strengthen worker power, protect good jobs and lift up everyone.
We also talked about the need for reform.
There’s a lot about policies and laws that have stopped working for America’s working families
Chips are stacked for employers when it comes to union organizing
Warren Buffett's secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does
Colleges have stopped being affordable - but without college, we’re stuck with stagnant wages
And our immigration system is broken (mixed signals, no line to get into) -- and it’s created an underground economy where labor abuses and wage theft are common, and workers have few rights.
We talked about why today’s immigration system is broken.
This is a map of the current routes to becoming a citizen. It’s a long complicated process, and for many people, there’s effectively no line to get into. If you’re lucky enough to be able to get into a line based on your nationality, being lucky to have a relative in the country, or having a highly specialized education, the process can still take decades.
There are some people who like it just this way – because by keeping the doors closed, it’s created an underground economy in which immigrants can be treated like second-class citizens and workers’ rights can be trampled on. But this doesn’t just hurt immigrants – the status quo hurts working families and it drives wages down for everyone.
For years our system has been exactly like this political cartoon of Uncle Sam standing on border giving mixed signals: “help wanted” and “stop undocumented immigration.”
On one hand, we say border is closed and there’s no way for many to apply – but at the same time, companies recruit immigrant labor for agricultural, food service, high tech industries. They benefit from guestworker programs and undocumented immigration where workers have few rights, a limited voice and wages are suppressed.
The lack of a common-sense immigration process has created an underground economy that benefits only CEOs.
Everyone knows our immigration system is broken - but what’s the solution?
Comprehensive immigration reform stops driving down wages, ends the underground economy that tramples on immigrant workers’ rights, protects good jobs & rewards high-road employers, and boosts our economy
Why we believe passing comprehensive immigration reform with a roadmap to citizenship is so important:
Throughout America’s history, people around the world have moved here to work hard in order to make life better for the next generation.
We need a process that reflects the values our nation was founded on – one that rewards people who work hard and make a contribution to our communities and protects ALL workers.
When people talk about comprehensive immigration reform, what do they mean?
Generally, they’re talking about these four components:
Legalization, which we believe must be a roadmap to earned citizenship
Future flow, or how immigrant workers in the future will be able to come in through our system
Interior enforcement, ensuring employers are held accountable and that there’s an effective work authorization process
Humane and rational control of the border
In 2006 and 2007, efforts to pass comprehensive immigration reform failed. We made a very intentional effort to come up with a unified labor movement policy and asked Former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall to lead the effort.
After consultation with all of our affiliates and the Change to Win unions, as well as faith, community, civil rights and other organizations, the labor movement adopted a framework that consists of 5 interconnected pieces: adjustment of status through a roadmap to citizenship, future flow, worksite enforcement, border enforcement and no expansion of guestworker programs – which should more accurately be called indentured servitude.
A key part of the policy framework is the establishment of a commission that would use real data to assess labor needs and identify labor shortages – and not just CEO demands.
The position of the labor movement works for ALL of America’s workers – whether U.S. citizens or aspiring citizens.
Continue to strengthen border security
Crack down on employers who hire undocumented workers
Create a roadmap to citizenship
Streamline our legal immigration system
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said meeting with Obama on Tuesday that they discussed "a data-driven system that is actually driven by needs and not by aspirations of employers.“ This is good news.
Create a tough but fair path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants currently living in the United States
Reform our legal immigration system in a way that will help build the American economy
Create an effective employment verification system that will prevent identity theft and end the hiring of future unauthorized workers
Establish an improved process for admitting future workers to serve our nation’s workforce needs, while simultaneously protecting all workers
Overall, both sets of principles have some strong, shared values and provide an optimistic outlook for reform.
But there are some areas of concern that we will be keeping a close eye on.
We will be talking with members of Congress to urge legislators to ensure workers are protected while on a roadmap to citizenship and that guestworker programs are improved, NOT expanded.
So just what do we mean when we talk about interior enforcement? It’s defined as all enforcement not done at the border.
By employers:
Worksite verification through inspection of documents and E-verify
By local or state governments:
Racial profiling provisions such as 2(b) of Arizona’s SB 1070
S-COMM & 287(g) agreements with ICE, which have made communities afraid to report crime
Let’s start off by taking a look at what’s happening with interior enforcement under current laws and policies, starting off with a look at local-level government enforcement.
Jurisdictions under S-Comm and 287(g) agreements feed names and fingerprints of immigrants who are detained – not just convicted – to ICE, and turn local law enforcement into immigration agents. These policies, along with laws like Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB 1070, make immigrants afraid to report crimes or have any interaction with local governments.
In Cobb County, Georgia in July of 2009, a woman we’ll call “Jenny” called 911 to stop her partner from assaulting her. But the police officers who responded to her call relied upon her abusive domestic partner’s account of what prompted Jenny’s 911 call, as she spoke little English. Her abuser’s story was far from honest.
According to her attorney Erik Meder, as a direct consequence of seeking help from the police, Jenny was herself arrested, physically separated from her infant daughter, spent five days in the Cobb County jail, and placed in immigration removal proceedings.
Jenny’s experience and that of others immigrants have a negative ripple effect, because as word gets around, many are unlikely to report crime or seek help.
(From: http://restorefairness.org/2011/04/georgia-%E2%80%9Cshow-me-your-papers%E2%80%9D-legislation-will-endanger-survivors-of-domestic-violence-and-sexual-assault/)
Programs like S-Comm also divert much needed resources from local communities.
“For that reason, the Major Cities Chiefs Police Association (MCC) has come out against local immigration enforcement, stating that ‘[s]ince the creation of the Homeland Security Department, federal funding for major city police departments has been greatly reduced,’ and ‘[l]ocal communities and agencies have even fewer resources to devote to such an effort than the federal government given all the numerous other demands on local police departments.’”
(From: http://www.majorcitieschiefs.org/pdf/MCC_Position_Statement.pdf)
(Also see: http://www.deportationnation.org/2010/08/secure-communities-meets-resistance-from-police-chiefs-audio/)
The administration has said repeatedly that it’s focusing on deporting convicted criminals and other “priority” cases for enforcement. But S-Comm and 287(g) agreements have led to thousands of deportations of low-priority cases like Neil Dylan Quiroga.
At the end of 2012, outlets reported that the Obama administration hit another record high in the number of deportations – nearly 410,000 in that year alone. Yet 45% of those deported have no criminal record or have committed only minor offenses.
(from: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/12/21/obama-administration-hits-another-deportation-record-almost-410000/ )
Despite the administration's “prosecutorial discretion” policy and despite Deferred Action, Dylan – a DREAMer from Maryland studying nursing – was deported in May 2012.
Dylan came to the United States in 2004 from South Africa and has lived in Maryland ever since. Dylan’s father came on a work visa, which allowed Dylan to hold an H4 Dependent Visa. The visa process for permanent residency is long, and once Dylan turned 21, his visa expired and Dylan fell out of status. Dylan’s father, step-mother, and younger sister are all green card holders. Before leaving Johannesburg, Dylan and his family were robbed 7 times and held at gunpoint.
(from: http://action.dreamactivist.org/maryland/dylan/)
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Anti-immigrant laws like Alabama’s HB 56 and Arizona’s SB 1070 have effectively made racial profiling legal.
In National Immigration Law Center’s August 2012 report, “Racial Profiling After HB 56,” people of color report rampant racial profiling.
A longtime Alabama resident who is originally from Honduras and has Temporary Protected Status with the U.S. government describes having been stopped by law enforcement multiple times while driving, being asking about her immigration status and being subjected to prolonged roadside detentions.
“Once while Ana was driving after dark, a police car followed her for a mile or so. When the officer eventually pulled her over, the officer asked why she was ‘hurrying.’ The only justification the officer gave for having stopped Ana was that she had her high beams on, which the officer did not claim was a violation of any law.”
(From: http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/12/us_deports_more_than_200k_parents.html and https://mobile.twitter.com/First_Focus/status/298895755501002752/photo/1)
Between July 1, 2010, and Sept. 31, 2012, nearly 23 percent of all deportations—or, 204,810 deportations—were issued for parents with citizen children.
A Colorlines.com investigation released in November 2011 estimated that there were at least 5,100 children in foster care who faced significant barriers to reunifying with their detained and deported parents.
An average of about 7,800 parents of U.S. citizen children are deported each month. Currently, 5.5 million children in the U.S. live in mixed-status families and are at risk from being separated from a parent at any time.
Among them were the children of Felipe Montes, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was deported from his home in North Carolina in December 2010 because of a series of driving violations. He left behind three young U.S.-citizen children and a wife, Marie Montes.
The kids initially remained with their mother, but Felipe Montes had been the primary caretaker and wage earner in the family and without the support of her husband the county child welfare department soon determined that Marie Montes, who had long struggled with mental illness, could not care for them. The three young boys were shuttled into foster care with couples who hoped to adopt them and the child welfare department refused to reunite the kids with their father in Mexico.
Last month, after a long court battle that drew national attention, a state judge in North Carolina granted Montes custody of his three kids. The 32-year-old father expects to take them with him to Mexico after the child welfare case is closed as planned in February 2013.
(For more on families torn apart by the lack of a common-sense immigration process, watch http://www.mercurynews.com/torn-apart)
Government enforcement at the local-level is problematic for a number of reasons we’ve examined. Instead, a more effective way to create interior checks is through worksite enforcement. If we create a roadmap to citizenship that provides a path to opportunities will full protections and rights, and then create an effective worksite authorization program that ensures 100% compliance, no longer will employers be able to create an underground economy that tramples on workers’ rights.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that worksite enforcement in its current state is riddled with problems. Let’s take a look…
(Cartoon from: http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/c108cee3-fa5d-44f1-a923-0361d20db0c7.html)
The current laws the encompass worksite enforcement leaves a gaping hole that employers too often walk right through to their advantage.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 act set fines up to $11,000 for hiring illegal workers. Some employers even set aside budget for these measly fines.
But even these employer penalties have a fatal weakness: employers can be fined only if the government finds that they knowingly hired someone illegally. To get around this, employers often insisted that they could not tell whether the papers were false.
(From: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/weekinreview/16greenhouse.html)
Corporate bosses frequently use misclassification in order to avoid having to pay taxes, benefits and workmen’s compensation for employees. They also use this tactic in order to get around the worksite authorization process.
(Image from: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=10934339)
E-verify without a roadmap to citizenship creates a costly system that’s ineffective
Costs federal government $1 billion to operate & small businesses $2.6 billion to use
It’s 54% inaccurate; false negative errors more likely to occur with foreign-born employees (from: http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/03/09/usa-today-attributes-claims-of-e-verify-errors/148111)
Mandatory e-verify without a roadmap to citizenship leads to more misclassification – the Congressional Budget Office estimates that making E-Verify mandatory without a roadmap to citizenship would cost $17.3 billion in lost tax revenue over 10 years, as more workers take to the underground economy.
(From: http://www.dailycamera.com/editorials/ci_20461563/e-verify-flawed-approach-immigration-has-made-problems)
It’s important to understand that employers sometimes use the I-9 audit process to chill a workplace dispute or organizing campaign.
Pursuant to the MOU between the DOL and DHS, ICE officials should not engage in immigration enforcement at worksites that are currently involved in a workplace dispute. When there is an ongoing labor dispute, employers may attempt to initiate an I-9 audit by tipping ICE officials that they believe there may be work authorization issues in their workforce. Organizers should contact the Department of Labor immediately and also contact ICE officials to stress the MOU.
The AFL-CIO Immigration Team has resources available and is working on a toolkit to put up on the Working Families Toolkit regarding I-9 audits.
We’ve seen that interior enforcement at the local-level is riddled with problems, doesn’t reflect our values, and too frequently violates civil rights.
Worksite enforcement is the best place to create real checks on CEOs who want to create an underground economy – but our current system needs to be fixed. So what would that immigration reform with regard to worksite enforcement look like?
Restore community trust & eliminate drain on local jurisdictions by ending local-level raid-like policies
Hold employers accountable for violations
Make government, not employers, the agents policing immigration
Implement tamper-proof documents
Close loopholes
Create universal system that everyone uses
One-time verification at hiring, NOT during union organizing
Part of comprehensive solution that includes roadmap to citizenship