Return-Path: <fran@cal.org> Received: from cal.org (cal.org [204.240.146.10]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA15128 for <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov>; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 11:32:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CAL-Message_Server by cal.org with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 11:33:52 -0400 Message-Id: <s34cd01f.001@cal.org> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 11:31:05 -0400 From: Fran Keenan <fran@cal.org> To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Subject: new Census report Status: RO Content-Length: 1511 Lines: 35 The U.S. Census Bureau released a report his week saying that now one in ten (9.3 percent) people in the United States is foreign born, the highest rate in more than 50 years. This shows a continuation of the upward trend since this century's low point in 1970. (The century's high point was 14.7 percent foreign born in 1910.) The report also details the changing ethnic and racial makeup of the foreign-born population since the 1970's. The percentage of Blacks and Asians and Pacific Islanders has risen markedly. As has been true for a long time, Mexico is the leading source of immigrants to the United States. To quote from a April 9th Washington Post article on the Census report, "Among the most controversial findings in the latest survey are numbers that suggests a growing influx of poor, uneducated and vulnerable immigrants at a time when the government is tying to move people from welfare to work and restrict immigrants' access to federal benefits." At the same time, 11.6 percent of those immigrants who arrived this decade have graduate or professional degrees compared to 7.7 percent of natives. For more information about the report, visit the Census Bureau's website at http://www.census.gov. Look under Press Releases by date. If you want even more online demographic information, look at the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education website at http:www.ncbe.gwu.edu/marquee/slide4/index.html. Fran Keenan NCLE National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education fran@cal.org
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