Better Schools Won’t Fix America
Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first.
Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first.
There is now a photograph that sums up everything wrong about America’s broken and overwhelmed immigration system. You’ve seen it, and it is hard to let it leave the mind or the conscience.
The bill is bipartisan and bicameral, intro'd by @SenMikeLee, @KamalaHarris, @RepZoeLofgren, and
News: @SenMikeLee + @KamalaHarris offer a bill to scrap country quotas for employment-based green cards. This is an enormous issue in the Asian-American community. Current law forces workers from China/India to wait years—perhaps over a decade—after approval to get residency.
US to grant more visas for seasonal workers, offering good news to Cape
By Katie Johnston Globe Staff,March 29, 2019, 2:14 p.m.
2019 HDC Fall Conference
Note: Rachel and her husband Spencer are godparents to Anne Manetas' nephew.
In the earlier months of Donald Trump’s presidency, Democrats were stunned by his popularity despite his racist rhetoric, acerbic arrogance, and international insults. Trump himself had meanly boasted that he could “shoot somebody on 5th Avenue” and not lose any votes. He knew the American political system—Dems included—worshiped at the altar of GDP growth.