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There are several reasons why someone may lack health care: the company that they work for does not offer it, they are unemployed and cannot afford health insurance, or while they may earn a good salary, it is still low enough to keep the price of insurance out of reach.
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Puede haber muchas razones para que una persona carezca de cobertura de salud: que la empresa para la que trabaja no ofrezca ese beneficio, que la persona esté desempleada y no pueda pagar un seguro de salud, o incluso que reciba un buen salario pero no lo suficiente para que
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La Segunda Enmienda a la Constitución de Estados Unidos es parte de la llamada Carta de Derechos aprobada el 15 de diciembre de 1791. En síntesis, da el derecho a la posesión de armas. Esto es, en traducción, lo que dice la enmienda aprobada por el Congreso: “Siendo necesaria una
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I pledge to write four columns celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) and questioning my own celebratory mood. The title, Happy Hostage Heritage, tries to reflect on the fact that Hispanics in America are hostages of their own success. My thesis: Hispanics —the majority minority— are gringos or at least as
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It is not what the United States does for immigrants, it is what immigrants do for the United States. Playing around with JFK’s words is always good for some historical perspective and brain stimulation. President Kennedy is the author of one of my favorite books on the issue of
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National Mall of Washington. Morning of Saturday, August 24th. It is the celebratory weekend of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. On August 28, 1963, we heard voices in DC that served as catalysts of unrest against a racist and unjust society. That day, the pathway to change
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They are Hispanics ranging from 18 to 34 years of age, they pertain to a generation mostly born in the United States, they speak English, and they have retained Spanish as a pillar of their culture. We call them “millennials,” and according to some demographic projections, they will represent over
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“All we know about undocumented immigrants is wrong,” wrote Ezra Klein in The Washington Post, echoing Princeton University’s Doug Massey, whose historical approach to the immigration issue can be read in a 2007 paper titled “Understanding America’s Immigration ‘Crisis.’” Note that the word crisis is in quotation marks.
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“Todo lo que sabemos sobre los indocumentados es erróneo”, escribió Ezra Klein, el 10 de agosto en The Washington Post, haciéndose eco del análisis del profesor de la Universidad de Princeton Doug Massey en un estudio publicado en 2007 titulado “Understanding America’s Immigration ‘Crisis.’” Ojo, la palabra “crisis” va
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The old joke goes that if you speak three languages you are trilingual, if you speak two languages you are bilingual; but if you only speak one language you are American. Such a self-deprecating statement concerning the American attitude toward languages other than English is currently being challenged by
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Un viejo chiste dice que si usted habla tres idiomas es trilingüe, si habla dos idiomas es bilingüe; pero si solo habla un idioma usted es estadounidense. Tal autocrítica sobre la actitud de los estadounidenses hacia otras lenguas que no sean el inglés se contradice con una realidad evidente: el
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The House of Representatives must act regarding the bipartisan Immigration Reform bill passed by the Senate (June 27, 2013) as mandated by the Supreme Court after the Arizona Decision (June 25, 2012). By seeking to enforce immigration laws, Arizona’s S.B. 1070 was in conflict with the U.S.