http://www.hispanictips.com Hispanic & Latino News Redefined - Empowering & Engaging Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:56:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/12/19/lawprofessors-typepad-the-migration-policy-institute-has-released-limited-english-proficient-individuals-in-the-united-states-number-share-growth-and-linguistic-diversity/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/12/19/lawprofessors-typepad-the-migration-policy-institute-has-released-limited-english-proficient-individuals-in-the-united-states-number-share-growth-and-linguistic-diversity/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:09:07 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=163913 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino Redefined. Empower Yourself!]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/12/19/lawprofessors-typepad-the-migration-policy-institute-has-released-limited-english-proficient-individuals-in-the-united-states-number-share-growth-and-linguistic-diversity/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/11/16/up-for-grabs-second-generation-hispanic-women-enroll-in-college-at-same-rate-as-third-generation-white-women-but-lag-in-completion/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/11/16/up-for-grabs-second-generation-hispanic-women-enroll-in-college-at-same-rate-as-third-generation-white-women-but-lag-in-completion/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:05:28 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=160887 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino Redefined. Empower Yourself!]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/11/16/up-for-grabs-second-generation-hispanic-women-enroll-in-college-at-same-rate-as-third-generation-white-women-but-lag-in-completion/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/07/12/new-mpi-estimates-as-many-as-2-1-million-young-people-could-be-eligible-for-the-dream-act-though-far-fewer-would-meet-its-education-or-military-service-requirements-for-legalization/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/07/12/new-mpi-estimates-as-many-as-2-1-million-young-people-could-be-eligible-for-the-dream-act-though-far-fewer-would-meet-its-education-or-military-service-requirements-for-legalization/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:25:38 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=140316
Prepared by MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, DREAM vs. Reality: An Analysis of Potential DREAM Act Beneficiaries, makes clear, however, that far fewer people would likely obtain legal status because of barriers limiting their ability to take advantage of the legislation’s educational and military routes to legalization. In the report, authors Jeanne Batalova and Margie McHugh estimate that only 38 percent — or 825,000 — of the 2.1 million potentially eligible DREAM Act beneficiaries likely would gain permanent legal status.

“Many potential DREAM Act beneficiaries would face difficulties in meeting the legislation’s higher education or military service requirements because of hardship paying for college tuition, competing work and family time demands and low educational attainment and English proficiency,” said McHugh, who is co-director of MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy.

According to the analysis, enactment of the DREAM Act would :

Immediately make 726,000 unauthorized young adults who meet the legislation’s age, duration of U.S. residency and age at arrival requirements eligible for conditional legal status (with roughly 114,000 of them already eligible for permanent legal status after the six-year wait because they have at least an associate’s degree).
Allow 934,000 children under 18 to age into conditional-status eligibility in the future, provided they earn a U.S. high school diploma or GED.
Extend the possibility of conditional status, provided certain educational milestones are achieved, to another 489,000 unauthorized immigrants between ages 18-34 who meet the legislation’s age and residency requirements but lack a high school diploma or GED.

Three-quarters of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries reside in 10 states – led by California with 553,000 (or 26 percent of total); Texas, 258,000 (12 percent); Florida, 192,000 (9 percent); New York, 146,000 (7 percent); and Arizona, 114,000 (5 percent). The other top 10 states are: Illinois (95,000); New Jersey (90,000); Georgia (74,000); North Carolina (51,000); and Colorado (46,000). The report also provides estimates for Virginia, Nevada, Maryland, Oregon, Utah and Nebraska.

The report shows DREAM Act implementation would clearly affect some states more than others, given the fact that three-quarters of potential beneficiaries live in just 10 states. Access to educational opportunities for DREAM Act beneficiaries also could vary from state to state because of significant differences in college enrollment practices and tuition policies.

“While most of the potential DREAM Act beneficiaries reside in traditional immigrant destination states such as California and Texas, it’s interesting that the legislation could touch the lives of more Hispanic youth and young adults proportionately in new destination states such as Nevada, Oregon, Maryland, Georgia and North Carolina,” said Batalova, an MPI policy analyst. “More than one in 10 Hispanics under age 35 in those new destination states potentially would stand to benefit from passage of the DREAM Act.”

The report also provides analysis of the income levels, labor force participation rates and other characteristics for the potential DREAM Act population.

“All in all, our analysis shows that a significant number of unauthorized immigrant youth would likely be able to meet the law's tough requirements for permanent legal status,” said McHugh. “The investments they would be required to make in their education or military service on the path to permanent legal status would ensure that they are well integrated into U.S. society and bring important skills and training to the U.S. workforce.”

The report analyzes the DREAM Act legislation which was introduced in 2009 and could be considered by the Senate as early as this month. The bill, formally known as the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act would allow unauthorized immigrants to apply for legal permanent resident status on a conditional basis if, upon enactment of the law, they are: under the age of 35, arrived in the United States before the age of 16, have lived in the United States for at least the last five years and have obtained a U.S. high school diploma or GED. The conditional basis of their status would be removed in six years if they successfully complete at least two years of post-secondary education or military service and if they maintain good moral character during that period.

The DREAM Act report is available at www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/DREAM-Insight-July2010.pdf.

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The report, Still an Hourglass? Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs, demonstrates that the fastest growth in immigrant employment since 2000 has occurred in middle-skilled jobs — jobs that require more than a high school but less than a four-year college degree and that typically pay a family-sustaining wage ($30,000 per worker annually).

The number of immigrants in middle-skilled jobs grew by 50 percent between 2000 and 2006 – with the overall distribution of the immigrant and native workforces resembling one another much more closely than has been popularly believed. Pre-recession, 25 percent of native workers and 20 percent of immigrants were employed in high-skilled jobs (requiring a bachelor’s degree or more); 29 percent of natives and 24 percent of immigrant workers in middle-skilled occupations; and 46 percent of natives and 56 percent of immigrants in low-skilled jobs (requiring high school or less education).

The study, which examines employment in the U.S. workforce and in four key sectors (IT, health care, construction and hospitality), finds that employment growth for immigrants far outpaced native growth rates between 1990 and 2006 in the total economy and the four industries surveyed. Between 2000 and 2006, immigrants accounted for more than half of all net job growth (5.5 million of 10 million jobs). With the onset of the recession, though, immigrant workers experienced slower job growth or a steeper decline than natives in all four sectors.

The report, done under a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, uses a sophisticated new method of analysis that permits deeper examination of how immigrant workers fare by economic sector, occupation, the skill level of their jobs and by their educational attainment and English proficiency.

Among the top findings:

* By 2006, in three of the four sectors surveyed (all but construction), the percentage of immigrant workers earning family-sustaining wages equaled or exceeded the share for native workers. Immigrants earned more in part because they were better educated than natives in the health care and IT sectors. Their wages and educational attainment were roughly equivalent in hospitality.
* Immigrants have been able to advance into middle-skilled jobs that pay family-sustaining wages without four-year college degrees.
* Because of striking gender disparities across the four sectors, the recession has taken a far heavier toll on immigrant men, who are much more heavily represented in the construction and IT sectors while women dominate the growing health care industry
* Steep job losses for immigrant workers in construction (as much as 30 percent in some occupations) led to a dramatic fall in the number of middle-skilled jobs available to immigrants with comparatively low educational attainment and limited English skills.
“Middle-skilled jobs represent important pathways for immigrant mobility. Fully 60 percent of immigrants in middle-skilled jobs earned family-sustaining wages before the recession’s onset compared to 28 percent of those in low-skilled jobs,” said MPI Senior Vice President Michael Fix, a report co-author. “But with the decimation of construction, the prospects for immigrants with little formal education and limited English skills have weakened significantly.”

Said co-author Randy Capps, an MPI senior policy analyst: “These findings raise a number of policy concerns, among them the capacity of work-preparing institutions to help move workers now in low-skilled jobs into middle-skilled occupations that pay family-sustaining wages — particularly in an era of fiscal constraints. The challenges are particularly acute with respect to immigrant workers who may have limited English proficiency and low education and literacy levels.”

Still an Hourglass? Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs is available as a full-length report, complete with in-depth sectoral findings and comprehensive methodology, as well as in a briefer format.

The Report in Brief is available at: www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/sectoralbrief-Sept2010.pdf.
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