SUNDAY | MAY 19, 2013
Gay Rights Plan Seen as Threat to Immigration Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Religious leaders said on May 8 that adding a gay rights proposal to immigration legislation could risk their support for the bill, setting up a potential Senate showdown. “We’re extremely hopeful that this bill will remain an immigration bill and not get tangled up with the issue of gay rights,” said Richard [...] 
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Amber Zenzak, an office manager at a small carpet-cleaning company, took a moment recently to consider what life would be like each week without state support for child care for her children ages 3, 4, and 9. “My day care costs would be $100 more than what I gross a week. [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate immigration bill would cost the government a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years to provide benefits for millions of people now living in the U.S. without documents, the Heritage Foundation said in a report Monday, setting off a fierce dispute with fellow conservatives and immigration groups [...]
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I am outraged by the prominent media outlets’ inaccurate and inflammatory coverage of the Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl. As a lifelong civil rights activist, I remember the struggle to pass the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in 1978 and the reasons it is still so badly needed to protect our families [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — State funding for pre-kindergarten programs had its largest drop ever last year and states are now spending less per child than they did a decade ago, according to a report released Monday. The researchers also found that more than a half million of those preschool students are in programs that don’t [...]
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When Wahid Rashad, 65, sees young people in Chicago chugging bottles of sugary drinks and chomping on fluorescent-orange snacks, he thinks: “That’s garbage. It doesn’t enhance the brain and energy level.” Rashad sells apples, mangoes, papayas and peppers from a produce cart in the city’s Uptown neighborhood. Among the comments he hears from customers since [...]
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants from Mexico. The men had health insurance from jobs at one of the nation’s largest [...]
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I am a 28-year-old immigrant who now has the life opportunities of an 18-year-old American-born citizen. I have been undocumented for 22 years, and as such, traditional American milestones have eluded me. In this country, the milestone of turning 18 is about becoming an adult, and gaining a whole new set privileges and responsibilities. When [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to what they scorn as “Obamacare.” It could mean exposing businesses to Internal Revenue Service penalties and leaving low-income citizens unable to afford coverage even as legal immigrants get [...]
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Some brimmed with hope. Several said improvements are needed. Many were pleased that lawmakers had filed a formal blueprint. Reactions to the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill dominated conversations on April 17, when it was introduced. The bill — formally known as the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013″ — marks the legislative [...]
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