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    The “Christmas Wars”: Holiday Displays and the Federal Courts

    For more information about the Christmas wars, see the recent transcript The Christmas Wars: Religion in the American Public Square. Heated disputes over seasonal religious displays in public spaces have become an American holiday tradition. Indeed, each year, as Christmas and Hanukkah approach, Americans across the country contest the appropriateness of the government sponsoring or […]

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    Methodology

    In November of even numbered years, the Current Population Survey (CPS) asks citizens aged 18 whether they registered to vote and whether they voted. The data provide definitive information on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the electorate. (The CPS is conducted by the Census Bureau and is best known as the source of monthly […]

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    VI. Employment by Industry

    Three years into the jobs recovery, most industries added workers to their payrolls between the second quarter of 2005 and the second quarter of 2006. Some industries stood out for both the absolute and percentage growth in their employment. Payroll employment data from the BLS identify these industries as construction, professional and business services, health […]

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    VIII. Growth in Wages, 2005-06

    The growth in wages reflected the trends in employment growth. Hispanics and blacks, who experienced relatively large drops in their rates of unemployment, also witnessed higher wage growth. For non-Hispanic whites and Asians, who have much higher median incomes compared to Latinos and blacks, wages showed little or no movement from the previous year. Among […]

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    New Workers, New Workplaces

    Young workers who have grown up with the internet, cell phones, video games, iPods, and digital cameras are different from their elders. Those who are now hiring the young “digital natives” need to recognize how they have grown up in a unique worl…

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    II. Introduction

    At the end of 2000, the labor market reflected the economic growth that prevailed for most of the 1990s. Unemployment rates were at their lowest point in 30 years—below 6% for Hispanics and less than 4% for non-Hispanics. The percent of the population 16 and older that was employed, or the employment rate, was at […]

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    Scenario Two: English displaces other languages

    Prediction and Reactions Prediction: In 2020, networked communications have leveled the world into one big political, social, and economic space in which people everywhere can meet and have verbal and visual exchanges regularly, face-to-face, over the internet. English will be so indispensable in communicating that it displaces some languages. An extended collection hundreds of written […]