“Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share.” PlaySchoolGrowingShareHigh SchoolCompetitionWorkersImmigrationImmigrantsShrinkingDropoutsSkilled WorkersSchool DropoutHigh School Dropout Author:Jared Bernstein
“It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.” ShouldMeanChildrenCountrySchoolCoursesProcessClearPopulationNationalismImmigrantsUnfortunateEndeavour Book:In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.” ThinkingYearsAbleSchoolPresidentLeaderHappenedTeamTaughtSonBaseballThirdsFormerCorporationsAweGradesImmigrantsStringsItalianTraveledPitcherDeanPhilanthropistMiltonHanging AroundDineGrades In SchoolFinanciersBaseball Team Author:Tommy Lasorda
“We need people from all around the world. We need entrepreneurs, we need students that we're educating in our schools that we then throw out and we should make sure they can stay here. If we don't have the new flux of immigrants, nobody's going to create the jobs for the Americans who are currently out of work.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsShouldSchoolJobsStudentsEntrepreneurAround The WorldImmigrantsFlux Author:Michael Bloomberg