The Labor Movement’s Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

[Excerpt] Immigration reform is a component of a shared prosperity agenda that focuses on improving productivity and quality; limiting wage competition; strengthening labor standards, especially the freedom of workers to form unions and bargain collectively; and providing social safety nets and high-quality lifelong education and training for workers and their families. To achieve this goal, immigration reform must fully protect U.S. workers, reduce the exploitation of immigrant workers and reduce employers’ incentive to hire undocumented workers rather than U.S. workers. The most effective way to do that is for all workers— immigrant and native-born—to have full and complete access to the protection of labor, health and safety and other laws. Comprehensive immigration reform must complement a strong, well-resourced and effective labor standards enforcement initiative that prioritizes workers’ rights and workplace protections. This approach will ensure that immigration does not depress wages and working conditions or encourage marginal low-wage industries that depend heavily on substandard wages, benefits and working conditions

Change Point Detection in Trend of Mortality Data

Mortality refers to death that occurs within a population. It is linked to many factors such as age, sex, race, occupation and social class. Change in the pattern of mortality trend can affect the population standards of living and health care. This event makes a change point is occurred in mortality rates. The aim of this study is to detect change point in Iranian mortality data during1970 to 2007. We use several frequencies and Bayesian methods to estimate the change point in mortality data by Poisson model. All methods show that a change has been occurred in mortality rates of Iran at year 1993. Results showed that pattern and rate of mortality before and after change point is not similar

Americans’ Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes

This report presents results from a national study of what Americans understand about how the climate system works, and the causes, impacts, and potential solutions to global warming. Among other findings, the study identifies a number of important gaps in public knowledge and common misconceptions about climate change. Educational levels: Graduate or professional, Undergraduate upper division, Undergraduate lower division, General public