This distinction is important to understand immigrant success. Low permanent skills are difficult to overcome but investment in U.S.-specific skills may facilitate the use of otherwise high permanent skills and lead to rapid earnings growth and success in the United States....
What did the Enforcement Act of 1870 make illegal? What does section 3 of the 1870 Enforcement Act say? What was the Immigration Act of 1870? What is the Naturalization Act of 1870? What were the enforcement acts? What was the Reapportionment Act of 1929?
More than anything, what the Reagan immigration act did is allow illegal immigrants living in the U.S. a chance to gain legal status through the amnesty clause. Many people think this potion of the law was what hindered its success, but I think this is the sole saving grace of the legis...
But it's also misleading because it represents immigration on a much larger scale than the U.S. has ever experienced, and is likely to experience. Immigration in the U.S. has been a slow phenomenon for the most part. Immigrants currently make up about 15 percent of the population -- in...
The carceral state, and its punitive processes of criminalization and control, operate in highly discriminatory ways and have both produced and reinforced massive inequalities along lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identity categories. But carcerality is also everywhere, a central ...
Below is a chart comparing some of Virginia's law with both the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which became effective in 2018, and the law that will replace it on Jan. 1, 2023, the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). CCPA CPRA VCDPA Enforcement California Attorney General’...
Pensions are correlated in amount to historic as well as current earnings, so pensions reflect the historic gender pay gap as well as the current gender pay gap. Differences in gender pay rates have continued despite the 1970 Equal Pay Act. The persistence of those differences is reflected in ...
Taking effect August 1st, 2024 is a new Minnesota law that's being called the 'Jetsons law'. Here's what that means.
H1B Visa is anon-immigrant visacategory that allows a foreign national to work in a specialty occupation in the US. The H1B visa program was created as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 to hire high-skilled foreign workers on a temporary basis by US employers. To work on an H1B Visa,...
What Is Mercantilism? Mercantilism was an economic system of trade that spanned the 16th century to the 18th century. Mercantilism was based on the principle that the world's wealth was static, and consequently, governments had to regulate trade to build their wealth and national power. Many Eu...