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UC Berkeley has recently acquired full-text access to the United States Congressional Serial Set (1789-1969) through LexisNexis Congressional. The Serial Set contains the legislative history of United States, and also includes many historic agency annual reports, House and Senate Reports, and many other official government documents (for a more complete summary of what is contained in the Serial Set, click here). Prior to this acquisition, citations to the Serial Set found in LexisNexis Congressional had to be searched in the Readex United States Congressional Serial Set database. With this purchase, you can now search LexisNexis Congressional for all your congressional research needs. Off-campus access to LexisNexis Congressional is restricted to current UCB student, faculty and staff, though anyone in the Library may access the database.
May 5th, 2009
The Inter-American Development Bank offers on its website various links to ’statistics and tools’ and one such tool is the Databank on Indigenous Legislation. The databank has three sections which in different ways make available legal texts, legislation at various levels and also case law. The National Legislation by Country section contains legal rules, text from constitutions, laws and case law. The section, National Legislation by Theme offers 20 themes such as cultural diversity, territories, health, environment, and indigenous women and within the themes lists legal rules in constitutions, laws and legislation. The third section, International Legislation includes the text of international conventions such as the American Convention on Human Rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, also includes international case law by country, and Inter-American Court of Justice rulings.
September 23rd, 2008
The Pew Hispanic Center has published the results of their recent survey, “2008 National Survey of Latinos: Hispanics See Their Situation in U.S. Deteriorating; Oppose Key Immigration Enforcement Measures“. The nationwide survey of 2,015 Hispanic adults reveals that 50% of all U.S. Latinos say that their situation is worse than it was a year ago. Supporting this view are worries about deportation, perceptions of discrimination in employment, and rising unemployment.
September 23rd, 2008
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) at http://catalog.gpo.gov may be unavailable for a brief interval of time Sunday evening, August 26, as the Government Printing Office performs routine maintenance. If you encounter the period of down time, please try again later.
August 24th, 2007
According to a new report entitled “How Immigrants Affect California Employment and Wages” by the Public Policy Institute of California, foreign immigrants to California do not affect the employment opportunities of U.S. citizens in the state. The report examined data from 1960-2004. According to the PPIC, the principle findings include “1) There is no evidence that the influx of immigrants over the past four decades has worsened the employment opportunities of natives with similar education and experience, 2) There is no association between the influx of immigrants and the out-migration of natives within the same education and age group, 3) Immigration induced a 4 percent real wage increase for the average native worker between 1990 and 2004, 4) Recent immigrants did lower the wages of previous immigrants.”
February 27th, 2007
Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) reached over US$53.6 billion in 2005. This was an increase of 17% and has made LAC the largest remittance market in the world. For decades, millions of migrant workers have been sending money to home countries to support their families. The money is sent regularly in small amounts and usually outside of the formal financial system, making the flow of money and its impact hard to understand. Remittances are now widely recognized as critical to the survival of millions of families and to the health of many national economies in LAC. Mexico is the largest recipient (over US$20 billion), followed by Brazil (over US$6 billion) and Colombia (over US$4 billion). The Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) started to track the remittance flows in 2000 with the goal of documenting the economic and social impact. In 2005 the MIF published, Beyond Small Change; making remittances count, (HG3915.2 B49 2005 - Doe Library gref collection) a compilation of studies on migrants who send money home. In addition the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has made available online the report, Remittances 2005: Promoting Financial Democracy (56pgs).
January 30th, 2007
The Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies has just highlighted the results of a two-year study by Dr. Elaine Lacy, “Mexican Immigration in South Carolina: A Profile”. The study involved interviews with 181 Mexican immigrants in up to 15 counties. The study provides answers to questions such as do Latino immigrants overuse public benefits. The Consortium site also list many other reports on Latino populations and immigration.
November 17th, 2006
Project Censored of Sonoma State University tracks news published by independent journals and newsletters. Each year the project publishes a list of news stories “of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media.”  This year’s list includes stories such as: “Bush Moves to Eliminate Open Government,” “Another Year of Distorted Election Coverage,” and “New Immigration Plan Favors Business Over People.” An online archive of previous years’ stories is also available.
November 16th, 2006
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during June 2006 the government reported filing 3345 new immigration prosecutions. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this number is up 5.2% over the previous month.
Source: TRAC Immigration via Docuticker
October 12th, 2006
“This report, from the Center for Immigration Studies, finds that the arrival of new immigrants (legal and illegal) in a state results in a decline in employment among young native-born workers in that state. Our findings indicate that young native-born workers are being displaced in the labor market by the arrival of new immigrants.”
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October 12th, 2006
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