Urban League

A new study commissioned by the Chicago Urban League and the Alternative Schools Network reveals the negative impacts of illegal immigration on low-skilled American workers, specifically teens and young adults.

As a result of the study, the group is calling for $1.5 billion of economic stimulus money to help employ young Americans or get them re-enrolled in school. The study found that the unemployment rate among Illinois teens was 20 points below the 2000 level, setting an all-time high. But increased immigration enforcement to root out the estimated 7 million illegal aliens in the U.S. workforce would help free up jobs for America’s lower skilled workers.

Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.), who introduced the LEAVE Act that would increase interior enforcement, released a statement about the study’s findings. During the course of the 2007-2009 recession, the employment rate of the nation’s teen[s] feel steeply to 26.2% by October-November 2009, setting new record lows each year. No other age group has experienced employment declines of this magnitude in the current recession. Young adults 20-24 years old in both Illinois and the nation also have been adversely affected by the deterioration in labor market developments in the state and nation in recent years, especially men, Blacks and Hispanics, and non-college graduates.

– Representatives Smith and Miller

In their joint statement, Reps. Smith and Miller said that the jobs these Americans and legal immigrants seek are the same jobs held by illegal aliens.

“The fact is that illegal immigrants take jobs from American workers, particularly poor and disadvantaged citizens and legal immigrants. The best outcome for low-skilled citizen and legal immigrant workers is the removal of the illegal immigrant population. The very jobs that illegal immigrants occupy rightfully belong to out of work citizens and legal immigrants," Ranking Member Smith added. “With 15 million Americans out of work, we need to enforce immigration laws and oppose amnesty for 12 million illegal immigrants. We must stand up for citizens and legal immigrants.”

“At home in California, almost weekly I hear from my constituents that illegal immigration is exacerbating the unemployment crisis," Rep. Miller said. "Today’s report that a record number of young Americans are jobless once again highlights the fact that we must enforce our current immigration laws to ensure illegals do not take away jobs that rightfully belong to American and legal workers.”

Reps. Smith and Miller recently formed the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus.

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/january-27-2010/new-study-shows-illegal-immigrations-impact-on-young-americans

Unless they deport all illegal immigrants, the economy is never going to recover so there is really no point in going to hs, as there will be no jobs any ways.
In FL the fruit pickers are now taking the few construction jobs, as the crops were destroyed by frost. They pay no taxes and they do cheap dangerous work, and they prevented trained, licensed Americans who DO pay taxes from working.

Time Remaining:
1. What brought an increase in income and growth in the GNP for the United States during the twenties?
(Points: 3)
low unemployment

industrialization and technology

longer hours

foreign credit

2. Which was not a limit on post-World War I prosperity?
(Points: 3)
gaps between the incomes of rich and poor

assembly line jobs

seasonal unemployment

discrepancy in wages between men and women

3. Why did the automobile have a major impact on the United States in the twenties?
(Points: 3)
The government could tax gasoline and an increase in the use of cars increased federal and state revenue.

Traffic began to create commuting problems that the government failed to address.

Inexperienced drivers caused numerous accidents that made it difficult for hospitals to provide adequate care.

By the end of the decade, automobile ownership had increased dramatically.

4. The radios, telephones, electricity, and indoor plumbing of the 1920s are evidence of what?
(Points: 3)
the influence of women on consumer decisions

the strain on resources following the war

the influence of technology on American life

the challenges people faced in keeping up with their neighbors

5. What 1920s trend favored individual experiences, emotions, and the expression of personal freedom in contrast to an earlier emphasis on consensus and reason?
(Points: 3)
Impressionism

Optimism

Abstract expressionism

Modernism

6. Dating, high school activities, and longer school enrollments in the 1920s were all signs of what phenomenon?
(Points: 3)
rebellion versus responsibility

youth culture

emphasis on education

stricter parental roles

7. What was the name for the 1920s African American cultural movement that included literature, drama, music, art, and dance?
(Points: 3)
Lincoln-Douglas Revival

Jazz Age

Harlem Renaissance
Coolidge Era

8. Which groups objected to immigration, responded to the Red Scare, and believed white Protestants were better than others?
(Points: 3)
African Americans and Catholics

Communists and socialists

Nativists and the Ku Klux Klan

Labor unions and Jews

9. What brought a ban on the sale of alcohol and an increase in organized crime to the United States during the 1920s?
(Points: 3)
the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

the Prohibition Act
the 18th Amendment

Capone v. United States

10. What brought the conflict between the teaching of evolution and religious fundamentalism to a head?
(Points: 3)
the Scopes Trial

the death of Warren Harding

the defeat of Al Smith

the high school reform movement

11. What group could be described for the first time in the 1920s with the terms flapper, wage-earner, and voter?
(Points: 3)
adolescents

urban Americans

African Americans

women

12. Which policy was common to the Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover administrations?
(Points: 3)
an increase in the size of the federal government

an emphasis on big business and the growth of corporate power

stress on the role of the League of Nations in world affairs

a military buildup in preparation for the possibility of another world war

13. Which U.S. president would disagree with the idea that the president should be a good friend to big business?
(Points: 3)
Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Woodrow Wilson

Warren Harding

14. The Great Depression was the result of wild stock speculation, economic disparity between rich and poor, and what else?
(Points: 3)
limits on farm production

a banking crisis
government’s failure to act

high tariffs overseas

15. Which was a cause of the stock market crash in 1929?
(Points: 3)
Too many investors tried to get in on buying the best stocks.

Too few investors were willing to purchase a wide range of stocks.

Investors bought stocks on credit because they thought prices would continue rising.

Banks refused to lend investors the money they needed to keep buying stocks.

16. Which was a cause of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains?
(Points: 3)
Farmers did not plant enough wheat to maintain the soil.

Native grasses were removed to produce wheat, leaving nothing to hold the soil in place.

Drought conditions brought high winds that blew in a counterclockwise direction.

A lack of water allowed dust to build up over time and caused equi

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The Urban League of Lexington, led by longtime executive director P.G. Peeples, has been championing affordable housing and job skills for the underclass for more than four decades.

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Steven Brooks from the Clark County Urban League told Host Cathy Hanson about his organizations financial literacy programs and aid to families. Plus, we have a “behind the scenes” look at how the Nevada Unemployment office is coping with the high volume of claims and tips on how you can speed up the filing process.

Watch this episode to find out how you can apply for one of 1,200 new job openings at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, or the new job openings from Nevada JobConnect.

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Jobs in City Construction . Broadcast May 5, 2009 live from the Minneapolis Urban League. Music by Wain McFarlane and Jahz.

For more information on the Conversations with Al McFarlane program:
(612) 588-1313
http://www.insightnews.com
http://www.kfai.org/node/44

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The city has come a long way in four decades, but there’s still a long way to go. As they celebrate their 40th anniversary, Urban League leaders say the time is now… to act! In this story, see how they plan to build the road to economic success.

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The June 15th episode of Recession Rx has in-depth information about avoiding loan modification scams, new bilingual classes on foreclosure prevention, and an interview with Nevada State embly Speaker Barbara Buckley about her new foreclosure mediation bill which goes into effect on July 1, 2009.

Steven Brooks from the Clark County Urban League told Host Cathy Hanson about his organizations financial literacy programs and aid to families. Plus, we have a “behind the scenes” look at how the Nevada Unemployment office is coping with the high volume of claims and tips on how you can speed up the filing process.

Watch this episode to find out how you can apply for one of 1,200 new job openings at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, or the new job openings from Nevada JobConnect.

Duration : 0:8:31

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For more information on the Conversations with Al McFarlane program:
(612) 588-1313
http://www.insightnews.com
http://www.kfai.org/node/44

Duration : 0:5:53

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