Over the weekend, I was listening to NPR’s TED Radio Hour with Guy Raz and it featured a rebroadcast of a TED Talk given in September by NALP (New American Leaders Project) President and Scholar, Sayu Bhojwani entitled, “How Immigrant Voices Make Democracy Stronger”. As I listened, I paused at a question asked by Guy, [...]
Every year since 1976, Lake Superior State University (LSSU) has released a "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness". Nominations are offered for words and phrases that are best left out of our vocabulary in the following year. The 2012 List is as follows: 1.Amazing 2.Baby Bump 3.Shared [...]
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analyzes trends in immigration and policy proposals that would affect immigration and states on its website that, Of the 40 million foreign-born people living in the United States in 2011, about 22 million were not citizens. About half of those non-citizens were authorized to be in the United States [...]