Guest Editor's Foreword (Special Issue with Selected Papers from the 19th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2011)

This issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications is devoted to the nineteenth International Symposium on Graph Drawing, held September 19-21, 2011, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Editor\u27s Note

This special issue of the journal, Workforce Development: Health Care and Human Services, focuses on a range of problems in the health care and human service fields from a perspective that is, to say the least, frequently neglected in public policy discussion — the perspective of their workforces and the labor organizations that represent them. In many respects, the questions the articles address are a microcosm of the problems that will daunt us in the future, daunt us even more because, in a world of limited choices, denial has a special utility: by allowing us to evoke the unpalatable, it allows us to postpone the inevitable, and in a society that measures the long run in terms of the length of a football season, kicking for safety is invariably preferable to moving the goal posts

Editor\u27s Note

These two issues of the Journal focus exclusively on the Latino community in the United States, which is the fastest-growing minority in the country. It is a development that poses profound questions regarding the course this country will take into the twenty-first century and the way in which it will define itself. It will sever the almost metaphysical distinctions between the melting pot and multiculturalism, opposites on a philosophical curve that are as much self-created as self-evident. Three areas of Latino experience are examined in this volume — the impact of immigration policies, employment and income opportunities, and the degree of political participation. The common denominator in all three is that the Latino experience is exceptional in comparison with the historical experience of other immigrant — or racial — groups, indeed, that in many ways it is antithetical to the experience of other groups and has many disturbing implications for the direction of public policy in these highly sensitive policy arenas, especially in times of severe economic difficulties

Guest Editor's Foreword

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