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Measuring Entrepreneurial Success. – Review – book reviews

Race, Self-Employment, and Upward Mobility: An Illusive American Dream

July 14, 2007

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Setting the Record Straight About Latino Images

Heritage presumes records — tales captured for retrieval. This nation’s most relentless archive is the media — but not for Hispanic women and youth. Their images are absent.

July 14, 2007

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Educated Immigrants Often Can’t Find Jobs that Match Skills

SAN FRANCISCO In Peru, Ines Gonzalez-Lehman directed a 14-person marketing team at a high-tech firm. After marrying an American and immigrating legally to the U.S., she found herself making copies and answering phones at the bottom of the corporate ladder.

July 12, 2007

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Closing doors and scary thoughts – City University of New York

The City University of New York has had a historical mission to provide higher education to immigrants, the poor, and minority Students. Its alumni include a distinguished roster of intellectuals like polio vaccine inventor Jonas Salk, who might not have had an accessible and affordable college education were it not for CUNY.

July 12, 2007

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo under new scrutiny

As people in Mexico and the United States commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Mexican American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo has come under new scrutiny from scholars in both countries. They have been examining the implications of the treaty which ended the war, and its political relevance and meaning to modern Mexico-U.S. relations.

July 12, 2007

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The ill-prepared and the ill-informed – remedial education feud in New York

NEW YORK City Council members presented three community college students here with a special proclamation this month, congratulating them on winning a national chess championship.

July 11, 2007

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Cross-cultural understanding spiced with the Indian Diaspora – author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and her book ‘The Mistress of Spices’

Dr. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni laughs gently as she talks about the success of her first novel, The Mistress of Spices.

July 11, 2007

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Arizona To Require Benefit Applicants To Prove Immigration Status

PHOENIX Government agencies in Arizona will be required later this year to take another step aimed at preventing illegal immigrants from getting government benefits.

July 8, 2007

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Iowa colleges reach out to Hispanics

DES MOINES Iowa Several universities and colleges in Iowa are ready to add Spanish-language pages to their Web sites and buying Spanish radio ads to help recruit more Hispanic students.

July 4, 2007

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Open attacks on programs benefitting people of color – Impact 1996

California Passes Proposition 209

July 4, 2007

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Immigration Bill Dead, But Not DREAM ACT

Despite defeat of the Senate’s immigration bill last week, Latino and other education leaders say they still will press for action this year on a bill to help illegal immigrant students gain legal status as well as access to in-state college tuition rates.

July 4, 2007

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Governor signs bills to help enforce immigration laws

PHOENIX Gov. Janet Napolitano on Monday signed into law proposals that are intended to help carry out two voter-approved laws that seek to confront some of Arizona’s immigration woes.

July 3, 2007