"Form follows function," Louis Sullivan famously said; he was the architectural genius who brought us the skyscraper around the turn of the last century. Today, we mourn the passing of another great American genius: Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers, who showed that...
Much has been written about the army of high-tech workers who come to the United States each year to work in the IT industry. It's less well known that school districts across the country increasingly are turning to overseas talent to fill teaching vacancies in...
One might like to imagine that things were different in an earlier, gentler, and wiser era, but the history books tell us otherwise: there never was a golden age when immigrants and immigration were universally popular in the United States. In the 1840's and 50's,...
Earlier this month, we discussed a new study from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), that found a substantial majority of the top science and math students in American high schools are children of immigrants. (See Study: Immigrant Children Boost U.S. Science Achievement, MurthyBlog,...
It has been a problem for years: scam artists cheating immigrants out of their hard-earned savings, promising to help them with complicated immigration paperwork, only to make off with their money and leave them without a legal leg to stand on. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
As we often observe on this blog, immigration is one of the major ingredients in America's success. Immigration has made America a hub of innovation and creativity, bringing bright, ambitious people here from around the world - people who contribute their talents, new ideas, and...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently released a report entitled Immigration: Myths and Facts, designed to refute several common misconceptions that have crept into our national debate on immigration policy. (See Immigration: Myths and Facts, Labor, Immigration & Employee Benefit Division, U.S. Chamber of Commerce,...
As we reported in this space at the end of March, the Maryland Senate approved legislation to provide in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children, and studied at a Maryland high school for at least three years. (See Counter-Trend in State...
If you believed the hype emanating from anti-immigrant fear-mongers, you might think that every immigrant was Latino, every Latino was undocumented, and that all of them had criminal records and was intent to do us harm - or at least to sponge government benefits. These...
The Japanese government, with the help of international aid, is struggling to restore a sense of normalcy after the recent earthquake and tsunami left thousands homeless, and a death toll that continues to grow. The international community is rallying to provide humanitarian assistance to disaster...
