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Immigration Controversy Lands in the Middle of Health-Care Reform Debate
All 2009 health-care reform bills maintained the five-year Medicaid bar for lawful permanent residents, leaving an estimated 4.2 million uninsured.
Immigrants and Health Care Reform: What's Really at Stake?
Uninsured immigrants use emergency care at low rates; excluding them from U.S. health reform raises safety net costs while adding minimally to overall costs if they are included.
Moving to the Land of Milk and Cookies: Obesity among the Children of Immigrants
Among children of immigrants in the United States, the newest arrivals face the greatest obesity risk.
Migration and the Economic Downturn: What to Expect in the European Union
EU migration is likely to slow during recessions, though continue as long as opportunity gaps between origin and destination countries persist.
Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators and their Policy Implications
Immigrants in Los Angeles face persistent labor market, language, and health-care integration gaps that call for more proactive policy across the public and private sectors.
Protecting Overseas Workers: Lessons and Cautions from the Philippines
An ambitious overseas worker protection system in the Philippines expands safeguards for migrants but also entails risks related to weak oversight, and fee-based financing.
Foreign-Born Health-Care Workers in the United States
In 2005, women comprised 73 percent of the U.S. foreign-born health-care workforce, with Asian countries as the dominant source.
Why Immigrants Lack Adequate Access to Health Care and Health Insurance
Nearly half of noncitizens in the United States lacked health insurance in 2004, driven by limited employer offers and 1996 welfare reform restrictions on public coverage.
Congressional Negotiations Stall while Bush Administration Pushes Enforcement, Integration
With House-Senate negotiations on immigration reform pushed to September 2006 at earliest, the Bush administration ramped up border and workplace enforcement as a stopgap.