U.S. employers pumped out another 280,000 jobs in May, suggesting that the recent slowdown was a temporary, weather-related phenomenon. The unemployment rate ticked up, to 5.5% from 5.4% the prior month, but even this was seen as a bullish sign—the result of more newly-confident people entering the labor force.
California hasn’t had a drought like the current drought since 1977 when California’s population was 22 million. Today, at nearly 40 million, 47 percent of California faces exceptional drought.
Twenty years on, we can reconstruct two different scenarios for the period 1992 to 2012: the actual one, in which immigration rises throughout the period, and the... ideal, in which an immigration moratorium is imposed.
There is, in the Christian tradition, the 13th century story of Martin of Tours, who was riding outside the city gates on a cold and windy night when he came across a starving beggar. In a gesture that was to get him sainted 400 years later, Martin divided his cloak and his dinner in half and gave it to the desperate man.
The Spring 2015 Social Contract journal is available, hot off the press. The issue theme is "How Many is Too Many? The Challenge of Latino Immigrants." Articles include: