“We also have to acknowledge that these cities that come top of the polls also don’t have any poor people.” (via)
Tag: immigration
Lore Segal: “Spry for Frying” – The New Yorker
I wish this weren’t behind a paywall. It was one of my favorite pieces in last week’s very good issue.
What’s in a Surname?. (via) “A new view of the United States based on the distribution of common last names shows centuries of history and echoes some of America’s great immigration sagas.” (Map: Mina Liu; Oliver Uberti, NGM Staff. Source: James Cheshire, Paul Longley, and Pablo Mateos, University College London.)
Reason Magazine has a great illustrated flowchart showing how hard it is to immigrate to the United States.
The existence of welfare state is one of the main rationalizations for undercutting the greatest anti-poverty campaign the world has ever known: immigration. …And unlike the welfare state, immigration has and continues to help absolutely poor people, not relatively poor Americans who are already at the 90th percentile of the world income distribution.
Mark Larson 