New Orleans Here are some interesting factoids that have crossed my path recently: * Of the estimated 7.3 Million undocumented workers in the United States now, the leading job classifications where we will find such workers are in the following areas according to the Pew Hispanic Center: o 436,000 Cooking o 400,000 Construction o …
Month: November 2007
Doing Good
New Orleans There was a filler article in the local paper that one read in some desperation for a touch of news on a Thanksgiving morning. The upshot of the sympathetically written article reprinted from the Washington Post focused on how hard it was to find jobs “doing good” especially for young people committed …
Low-Income Ivy Sweepstakes
Washington Here’s another news flash. Seems some of your super-expensive ivy league and ivy league wannabe schools have realized that it is just too damned expensive for low (and moderate?) income students and their parents to have a shot at breaking the iron cage of social stratification in our country. Somehow a four year …