US population 300 million on Tuesday, 17 October, 2006
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16:38 20/10/2006
The population of the United States hit the 300-million mark officially on 17 October, a milestone set to generate little celebration. Unlike the pomp and circumstance that greeted the 200-million...
Potential enforcement and amnesty provisions from the US immigration bills
11:55 30/05/2006
Each house of the US Congress passed bills in the past weeks. These will now be negotiated into a final bill which will be presented to the president to sign into law. Quite a bit of confusion and...
Global, US hospitality industry need workers
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A shrinking labor force is the number one challenge facing the global hospitality industry, according to the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, which recently convened to brainstorm...
US immigration hits five year high -- study
10:37 13/12/2005
Immigration to the US - both legal and illegal - continues to boom as Congress grapples with how to better control America's borders. A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 7.9...
Study compares fertility rates among US immigrants
13:22 13/10/2005
A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies finds that women from the top-ten immigrant-sending countries to the US collectively have higher fertility than women in their home countries. As...
One-fourth of 2002 US births to immigrant mothers
16:59 08/07/2005
Almost one quarter of all births in the United States in 2002 were to an immigrant mother, the highest level in US history, according to a new report. The number even exceeded the figure for 1910,...
