Not going to come any closer to an answer reading an agenda-pushing s***-sheet, that's for sure.
Let's set the tone for you:
"Rescue office's closing puts refugees at a loss; Rising costs, lack of federal aid blamed" by David Abel, Globe Staff | May 2, 2009
It will close on June 1 - creating a vacuum in services for some of the region's most vulnerable residents, and leaving hundreds.... to figure out where to turn for help with housing, medical care, food, jobs, and much more.
(Blog editor just slumps in his chair with his heart broken; when is this state going to care about us, the taxpaying citizens, and our services)
Related: Reason Number One Why No One Reads the Boston Globe Anymore
a job arranged....
Where can I get that?
Officials at the New York-based International Rescue Committee said they had to close the Boston office, as well as satellite offices in Worcester and Lowell, because of insufficient aid from the federal government, rising local expenses, and a dwindling donor base....
Related: : Reason Number Two Why No One Reads the Boston Globe Anymore
Yeah, some people are never hurt.
In the last decade, as the number of refugees admitted to the United States dropped sharply after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the Rescue Committee helped settle nearly 20 percent of the more than 17,000 refugees arriving in Massachusetts, many of whom were fleeing violence or political repression. They specialized in harder cases, such as youths like the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan, other youths, and those with medical issues from war zones including Iraq and Somalia.
Yeah, all those LYING WARS you thought you were FAR AWAY FROM, America?
Related: The Boston Globe Puts Israel Ahead of America
You are PAYING IN WAYS you NEVER EVEN DREAMED!!!!
Richard Chacon, commissioner of the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants, said the state is working closely with the Rescue Committee and is helping transfer the most recent arrivals to other organizations that help settle refugees, such as Catholic Charities of Boston, the Jewish Family and Children's Services in Waltham, and the Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center in Jamaica Plain. "We're clearly going to feel a loss," Chacon said. "You hate to lose an organization with their stature. But what we're seeing is a perfect storm of the downtown in the economy . . . and a situation where the level of cash assistance provided to refugee families has not changed in over a decade."
Refugees sending too much home, or.... ?
And where is the CASH for American citizens who have been victims of foreclosure?
I mean, BANKS got a BOODLE!!!!
When the Rescue Committee opened its Boston office in 1979 in response to a flood of Southeast Asians fleeing Cambodia and Vietnam, the State Department provided $565 per refugee to resettlement organizations.
So that was for VIETNAM over 30 YEARS AGO!!
Has to be more of an outlay for the taxpayer now, right?
The federal government now provides $900 per refugee, but with rent and other expenses significantly higher, that amount buys significantly less today in Boston.
That's because your distorting and deceptive MSM is obfuckating the dollars descent.
In exchange for the payment, the resettlement groups are expected to do everything from meet the refugees at the airport to rent and furnish their apartments, buy them food, set them up with public assistance, show them how to navigate the city, find them medical care, and enroll them in job training and English programs, among many other tasks.
So WHERE is MY INDIVIDUAL CASE WORKER and agent?
In short, the groups say, the government aid no longer covers their costs; they now rely on private donations and volunteers to make up the difference.
As it should be!!!
WTF?
Government and MSM LIE YOU INTO PROFITEERING WARS and then say TAXPAYERS should care for the victims?
Take it out of the BANK or KBR BONUSES, will ya?
Carolyn Benedict-Drew, president of the International Institute of Boston, said resettlement organizations like hers need at least $1,500 per refugee to pay for their operations. She's campaigning for additional money from the federal government, and questions whether Boston has a sufficient social safety net to take care of the Rescue Committee's refugees, many of whom have expensive medical issues....
WHERE is all this MONEY supposed to COME FROM, anyway?
We are TAPPED OUT as TAXPAYERS, sorry!!
That's why tax hauls are declining, despite the s***-covered glasses of the state.
Marjean Perhot, director of refugee and immigration services at Catholic Charities, worried that the Rescue Committee's closure will set a bad example for other organizations that might decide that "when it gets too expensive to settle refugees, it's time to stop.... This is going to be very destabilizing for a lot of the refugees who see the IRC as their lifeline - the only people in the US who care about them."
I CARED ENOUGH about them to PROTEST the WARS and BANG MY HEAD and KEYBOARD up against a BRICK WALL, so LAY OFF the ELITISM, huh?
If it had been UP TO ME and NOT YOU, lying dirt bags, they WOULD STILL BE LIVING at HOME with FULL BODIES!!
And YOU KNOW where the $$$ IS!!!!
In her 30 years as director of the International Rescue Committee's office in Boston, Rita Kantarowski said, the staff "never closed a case."
Kantarowski, who was laid off in March, said the organization worked closely with refugees for at least four months - taking them grocery shopping, accompanying them to local hospitals, showing them how to use the MBTA - but their relationships rarely ended. "We became very connected to the people we worked with," she said, adding some refugees later became donors. "We did what we could with what we had."
No one loves us, readers.
For the Al Samara family, the shuttering of the Rescue Committee has been like a rug pulled out from beneath them.
Like a "prayer" rug, Jewish War Daily?
?????
The local office has helped set up their utilities, provided them with beds, bureaus, and other furniture, enrolled their children in school, helped them get their shots and vaccinations, and arranged for Al Samara, a 52-year-old former biology teacher, to take English classes, and Abid, a 44-year-old former engineer, to take computer classes.
So they can take jobs from out of work American engineers and teachers?
But they're running low on cash and are worried about covering the $850 monthly rent for their three-bedroom apartment, and repaying the $5,500 they owe the federal government for their plane tickets to Boston, among other concerns.
Oh, EVEN THAT came with STRINGS, huh?
The ONLY ONES who never have that problem are the BANKS and WAR-LOOTERS, ever notice that?
".... we need more help."
Who doesn't?
So are you feeling all sorry for them, readers?
The victims of wars that your *ewish, war-promoting paper brought you before fomenting more wars, and which you must now care for?
And those are the workers the Glob cares about, America:
"Worker advocates are calling the payment a victory for immigrant workers who organized and stood up for themselves despite their unfamiliarity with state labor laws."
Feeling happier now?
Just don't ORGANIZE and STAND UP for the "wrong causes" like any ANTIWAR or ANTI-AGENDA group, 'murka!
But this time it's okay. Zionist love us all at each others throats as they promote divisiony, I mean, diversity.
Just like they diversify Palestinians from their limbs and lives.
And honestly, I'm tired of the whining. You guys are getting as bad as the you-know-whos; must be from being used as tools by them.
"Immigration activists urge census boycott; Hope effort spurs legislation" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | September 8, 2009
That's fine with me.
You will save the REST of the COUNTRY'S TAXPAYERS some $$$!!!
A small but vocal group of advocates is urging illegal immigrants and their supporters nationwide to boycott the 2010 Census to protest the government’s inaction on immigration legislation, a move that, if successful, could cost Massachusetts and other states millions of dollars.
HOW AMAZING that a ZIONIST-RUN INSTITUTION would PICK UP on THAT, huh?
That's how they BROUGHT you the WARS, America!!!!
With their LYIN' ZIONist MSM!!!!
Related: Six Jewish Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
And my morning BG is steeped in the s***.
The campaign is setting off alarms across the United States because census figures are crucial to determining how much federal funding cities and towns receive. A large-scale boycott, state officials and prominent pro-immigrant groups warn, could force Massachusetts to cut services from school lunch programs to highway construction, and heighten its chances of losing a seat in Congress.
ANOTHER ANCILLARY BENEFIT!!!
But proponents say the boycott would pressure politicians to address problems illegal immigrants face every day - such as long separations from their families back home - and pursue a comprehensive overhaul of the country’s immigration system that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants.
Yup, ALWAYS the AGENDA-GRINDING AXE with the Boston Globe!
“Legalize us before you count us,’’ Fausto da Rocha, a Brazilian immigrant leader in Boston said on a talk-radio show in Quincy last week, where callers from as far away as Brunswick, Maine, expressed support for the boycott. “Politics is about power and money, and by not giving your information, you’ll be taking away money and power from the politicians.’’
And AIPAC is KING in AmeriKa!!!
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While the boycott is a national effort, states with significant percentages of immigrants such as Massachusetts stand to lose more because of formulas that base federal funding on population. Last year, Massachusetts received $11.4 billion in federal funds, and people who shun the census could cost the state about $1,755 apiece, said Brian McNiff , spokesman for the Massachusetts secretary of state....
Yup, MORE of YOUR TAX DOLLARS going so you can GIVE MORE of YOUR TAX DOLLARS to ILLEGAL RESIDENTS, America -- as you try to hold on to that s*** job and house.
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Of course, it is NOT all BEER and SKITTLES!
The GOVERNMENT ALWAYS has to MAKE a BUCK!!!
"Fees deter many from citizenship; Advocates say cuts in services also play role" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | September 28, 2009
Nearly 300,000 legal immigrants in Massachusetts are eligible to become US citizens, but only a small percentage each year are reaching that goal, raising concerns that huge swaths of people are being priced out of the American dream.
Fees to apply for citizenship have soared in the past two decades from $60 a person to $675, making them among the highest in the Western world, researchers say.
Welcome to AmeriKa, immigrant$!!!!!!!
That is your FIR$T LE$$ON!!!!
At the same time, assistance for navigating the often confusing system is dwindling because of state budget cuts.
Hey, join the crowd. Pool getting kind of crowded, though.
Citizenship is considered the ultimate pathway to integration in society, requiring that immigrants learn English and US history and defend the Constitution.
It would be NICE if AmeriKan government, schools, and newspapers would DO the SAME, BUT....
It grants them the right to vote, apply for federal jobs, and bring their families to the United States....
Whatever the reason,
Isn't that the same as a "who cares?"
researchers and advocates say, everyone pays the price that comes with having residents who are not full-fledged citizens.
What, a SMALL FART POOT of TRUTH from the BG's lips?
It is visible in low voter turnout among immigrants and the lack of engagement with police, schools, and community groups. Perhaps less visible but more detrimental, researchers say, is the sense among noncitizens that they do not have a stake in this country.
Well, WE ALL HAVE a STAKE; however, THIS NATION is ONLY SERVING ZION and its allies at the current time -- which means NONE OF US REALLY have a STAKE in the USRAELI EMPIRE!
Better this nation IMPLODE under the COSTS of EMPIRE than continue as the diseased, mass-murdering, war-criminal carcass it has become.
Without citizenship and participation, immigrants become outcasts, said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University.
Aww, the poor dears!
Like the government is LISTENING to the American people or something!
You don't feel included here?
Then GO HOME!!!!!!!!!
“We’ve lost our soul,’’ said Sum, who has studied low voter turnout among immigrants.
That's what happens when you MASS-MURDER a FEW MILLION Muslims!!!!
“You have a lot of people who are here who can’t register or don’t vote. What kind of democracy is that?’’
Pfft! Politics.
I no longer believe in that, either -- especially with SO MUCH OF IT in my NEWSPAPER every day!
The effects ripple across cities such as Boston, Lawrence, Cambridge, and Lynn, which have high immigrant populations and low citizenship rates.....
US Citizenship and Immigration Services raised fees two years ago to hire more staff and modernize its systems to speed processing times. Now processing times are among their lowest in at least three decades. It takes less than four months in Massachusetts to become a citizen, on average, faster than the national rate.
Bringing them in a$ FA$T a$ you can, huh?
In addition, the federal agency is facing a budget shortfall, because of reduced applications for immigration services, that could lead to higher fees. “We’re in kind of a challenge right now,’’ said agency spokesman Bill Wright.
Yeah, have you EVER NOTICED that AmeriKan businesses like to TRUMPET the EXPANDING SHARE of a SHRINKING -- and thus DYING -- INDUSTRY?
Or that the PRICE on, say, ICE CREAM remains the same as the CUT the PRODUCT AMOUNT PER PACKAGE by 25%?
And HERE GOVERNMENT IS doing the SAME THING!!
And NEVER MIND the ROLE of the DECLINING DOLLAR in all this!!!
You can TAKE IN MORE MONEY, but WHAT if it is WORTH LESS!!!?
In Massachusetts, the state slashed funding for citizenship classes to teach civics, history, and geography to prepare immigrants to pass the test, from more than $600,000 to $250,000 this year, as part of budget cuts. The cut contrasted sharply with the expectations that Governor Deval Patrick set in July 2008, when he pledged to find better ways to integrate immigrants into Massachusetts.
Yeah, those DAMN NCLB tests, 'eh?
“We’re very disappointed that the program has been cut, and especially at this juncture,’’ said Eva Millona, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. “If you want everybody to participate and be more active in their communities, you should encourage citizenship.’’
Globe call her up every time they do a story, or is this one of their agenda-pushing sources? Both?
Richard Chacón, executive director of the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants, the state agency that administers the funding, said the governor and the state Legislature had to cut the funding because of widespread budget cuts. The governor had hoped the budget would be higher, he said. “The administration has done so far what it can to preserve a program like this,’’ Chacón said. “It’s a reflection more of the tough budget climate than of any attitudes about the value of this program.’’
Yeah, he's another one.
Also see: Tough Love For Lawrence (and related links)
Tells you where the money is going and where its coming from, taxpayers!
Feeling a bit light in that wallet, huh?
So if you don't grease some government palms, you don't get in, huh?
Did they tell you that before you left?
And I was told immigration was down, so WTF?
"Bay State’s immigrant influx grows; Latest data run counter to US trend" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | October 5, 2009
Massachusetts’ immigrant population rose last year in the middle of the recession, bucking a national trend that showed a decline in foreign-born residents for the first time in decades.
The Bay State’s modest 2.5 percent increase in immigrants puzzled researchers and advocates as the numbers dipped in other states, including California, Florida, and neighboring Rhode Island, according to the Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey.
That is where I $U$PECT a LIE, folks!
Theories accounting for the increase abound.
Oh, "theories" abound, huh?
Like all those "crazy conspiracy" theories, MSM?
It could be that the state’s economy fared better than those of other states, that the census survey simply missed departures from Massachusetts, or that tabulation of a decline could still be coming. Some researchers suggested that immigrants in Massachusetts - who make up 14 percent of the state population - are inclined to stay put because they are more highly educated than immigrants elsewhere and less likely to be here illegally.
Yeah, right: Mass. Migration: What's the Difference Between a Brazilian and Dominican?
I think it is the DEAL they are GETTING with all the HELP that KEEPS THEM HERE!
That gives them an edge in an economic downturn.
Nowhere is the immigrant tally more surprising than in Framingham, where the estimated number of immigrants rose from 15,037 to 17,727 last year, making it about a quarter of the town’s population of 69,000. Some advocates for immigrants had warned that many were decamping for Brazil, the native country of the largest immigrant group in town, because of the economy and because those who were here illegally had abandoned hope for legal residency.
Related: DMV Waves Through Illegals
Brazilian Killer Strips Boston Bare
Also consider:
"I'm double dipping and I'm happy to be doing it," said Ralph Olsen, 62, who is finishing up his second year as principal of Durfee High School in Fall River and plans to return next school year. Olsen, who retired as Framingham High School principal in 2004, earns $87,311 a year in pension income and makes $140,000 a year in his new position....
This while YOUR teachers are being laid off and YOUR SCHOOLS budgets cut, taxpayers.
“People have been saying to me for years, ‘Don’t you see fewer people?’ And I’ve been saying no,’’ said Christine Tibor, director of Framingham’s adult English-as-a-second-language program. “Our numbers are actually up.’’
Yeah, JUST as I had SENSED!
WTF is with the newspapers these days?!!!!
The latest figures are based on the American Community Survey, an annual survey of 3 million households nationwide that offers an estimate of the population between the decennial census, which is a head count of the entire United States....
I suspect this is about GETTING MORE MONEY from the FEDS, don't you?
Nationally, the number of immigrants slipped less than 1 percent, leveling off after soaring in previous years.
Hey, they KNOW a GREAT DEAL when they see one!
Some experts attributed the national decline to immigrants who are returning to their homelands because of the recession, but others said that the influx of foreigners coming into the United States had plunged.
But no one really knows.
Researchers looking specifically at Massachusetts said that immigrants are more likely to be here legally and be highly educated compared to immigrants in other states, giving them an advantage in the current economy. About one in five Massachusetts immigrants is here illegally, below the national average of roughly one in three....
So says the pro-illegal, agenda-pushing Glob. Pffft!
Massachusetts also might offer a more welcoming environment for immigrants than other states....
Oh, NOW THEY GET AROUND TO IT -- but not for long!
It is most likely that immigrants - like anyone else - stayed in Massachusetts because they could find work, said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. “Immigrants respond to where the jobs are,’’ said Sum. “There was no place for them to go.’’
Yeah, meanwhile the whole state dumped about 300,000 jobs last year -- but THIS is where the WORK IS for IMMIGRANTS!!!
Un-flipping-real!
NO WONDER there are NO JOBS OUT THERE!!!!!!
If it weren’t for immigrants, Massachusetts would have lost population in the past decade, Sum said.
I can live with that -- because it TELLS YOU PEOPLE are LEAVING THIS STATE!
They SEE what a SHIT HOLE it has become!!
Even SMELLS LIKE IT, so don't visit, readers!!!
I've noticed that in the spring, when the wind blows right, the town smells like DOG SHIT!!!
The survey results did draw skepticism from some advocates, who said the immigrant communities are notoriously hard to count, partly because a significant minority are here illegally.
So 1 in 5 is SIGNIFICANT even though it is below the alleged national average, huh?
HARD to COUNT, huh?
So HOW MANY MORE LIES is the AGENDA-PUSHING PAPER going to tell us, huh?
“That’s not the experience that we have,’’ said Fausto da Rocha, a local Brazilian immigrant leader, of the numbers showing an increase in immigrants in Massachusetts. He said he believes thousands have returned to their native countries, particularly Brazil, where the economy seemed stronger, a change that he said is visible in churches and neighborhoods and in shops that have closed....
That guy again, Globe?
It's ALWAYS the SAME OLD SOURCES and the SAME OLD VOICES, isn't it, Globe?
To be sure,
As if they NEED to REALLY CONVINCE.... themselves, huh?
Because they are the only ones reading it.
the number of people in Massachusetts who said they were born in Brazil has declined in the years preceding the new 2008 tally....
But NO ONE REALLY KNOWS!
But the numbers climbed back up last year....
You are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, Globe!
I have NEVER SEEN ANYONE work SO HARD to SHOVEL such S***!
Alvaro Lima, research director at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, said immigrants returned to Brazil but not in the huge numbers that some believe, partly because Brazil’s economy is not as strong in their hometowns.
Well, then, which is it, MSM?
Also see: A Model Looting
Oh, that is what the Boston Redevelopment Authority is for, huh?
And some Brazilians moved to other states, such as Louisiana to help rebuild New Orleans.
Related:
"Mass. AG, company settle Hurricane Ike pay dispute
BOSTON --Attorney General Martha Coakley has reached a settlement with a disaster response company accused of failing to pay workers recruited for Hurricane Ike cleanup. Coakley's office announced Friday that the Everett-based LVI Environmental Services, Inc. has agreed to pay around $50,000 in restitution to 159 workers. The attorney general said LVI recruited workers from Lawrence in 2008 with a promise of work in the storm's aftermath. The workers were bused to Houston but the majority did not receive any work. Workers stayed in Texas for a week before being transported back to Massachusetts."
Yup, the ILLEGALS GO where the JOBS ARE, stoo-pid Amurkn!!
Or DHS will give them a RIDE!
In Framingham, signs that the immigrant community is staying can be seen in the number of adults in English classes, which remains high....
What's the title of the post? Yup.
It is also possible that new immigrants have replaced those who left.
But we REALLY DON'T KNOW and have NO WAY of KNOWING, but!!!!
In Tibor’s English classes, refugees from Iraq now join immigrants from Brazil, Russia, and China....
Yeah, bring 'em all in, America. You got $$$ coming out your ass for their services while you get none of your own!
Thanks for the LIES to create the problems, MSM!
But
WTF is with the **** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Priscila Silva, a 33-year-old nanny from Belo Horizonte, also in Brazil, said she knows five people who have left. “It’s been very difficult for immigrants to stay here,’’ she said. “There aren’t any jobs.’’
(Blog author is damn near incredulous at this point)
See: Mass. Migration: Making Money
Immigrants also may have spread out to the suburbs, said Pablo Maia, owner of a real estate company that has operated for 10 years in Framingham and Marlborough. “I’m here every day, and I can see the guys are still here,’’ Maia said. “Some of them, they just moved around, from Framingham to Marlborough to Ashland. If you drive in Massachusetts today you’ll see a Brazilian place everywhere you go.’’
Or a synagogue.
If Massachusetts’ 9.1 percent unemployment rate continues to rise, researchers say it is possible that immigration will decline. “It may be when we get next year’s data we get a different picture of what’s happening,’’ said Rakesh Kochhar, associate director for research at the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center. “Some things may be changing just as we are talking.’’
Pfffft!
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"A place where all belong; Immigrants transforming Malden anew" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | December 23, 2009
This is another issue I'm going to start dropping because of the lies.
Dropping Globe stories like flies now.
MALDEN - Malden, an unassuming community of 56,000 residents just minutes north of Boston, has quietly become a major destination for immigrants, second in the state only to Chelsea in its percentage of foreign-born residents.
The foreign-born population of Malden has doubled since 1990 to 37 percent, according to US Census Bureau estimates, mirroring a trend of immigrants moving to suburbs....
Oh, picking right up where she left off with the agenda-pushing; how about that?
Immigrants have long flocked to this city on the banks of the Malden River, from the Irish and Italians who came to work in the factories at the turn of the 20th century to Jewish immigrants who fled Europe before and after World War II.
Yes, of course.
Now, immigrants from China, Haiti, India, Pakistan, and Morocco are transforming Malden anew, choosing it for many of the same reasons: affordable housing, decent schools, low crime, access to public transportation, and proximity to jobs in Boston....
Yes, I UNDERSTAND they want the SAME THINGS WE ALL DO; however, MUST they do it at OUR EXPENSE to serve GLOBALIST MASTERS?
Related:
"In the Hamptons, playground of the rich now in the hole; Haven's deficit may pass $12m" by Frank Eltman, Associated Press | August 9, 2008
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - While East Hampton is home to billionaires and celebrities such as financier Ronald Perelman, Alec Baldwin, and Steven Spielberg, the Hamptons also have a large number of working-class people, many of them illegal immigrants, who mow the lawns, trim the hedges, clean the swimming pools, park the cars, serve the hors d'oeuvres, tidy up the mansions, and do many of the other things that make life so enjoyable for the rich.
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Getting the picture now, America, and WHO SERVES WHO?
Malden High principal Dana Brown said the children of immigrants and their parents appear to be eager to seize the opportunities they are given, which is one reason Malden’s schools, though struggling, often test higher than other urban schools....
Translation: Immigrants are BETTER THAN YOU, Amurkn!
Unless, of course, you happen to be a JEW!
For their parents, the biggest attraction in Malden is the price of housing, then the schools. Many residents said they fled higher rents in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston for Malden, where they have easy access to the T but fewer headaches with parking, traffic, and the cost of living....
Well, I'm glad they are comfortable in their homes that have not been foreclosed.
--more--"Ready for another agenda-pushing mixed message from the Boston Globe?
"Reversing trend, more are coming to Mass. than leaving it; Analysts cite economic resilience, housing dip, lack of jobs elsewhere" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | December 25, 2009
For the first time in at least two decades, more US residents are moving to Massachusetts than moving out, a dramatic turnaround that has helped fuel the state’s sharpest population growth since 2001, according to new estimates from the US Census Bureau.
The increase, which was recorded from July 2008 to July 2009, stunned demographers accustomed to a yearly exodus of residents packing up and moving to warmer climes.
Among other reasons. And is that ANOTHER LIE I'm smelling?
Globe wants to KEEP that REPS SEAT, huh?
Taking into account the number of people who left the state and the number who entered, the net gain was only 3,600, but it was the first time that number has been positive in 20 years.
The relative resilience of the Massachusetts economy....
PFFFT! It NEVER F***ING ENDS with these twits!
helped attract and retain residents, demographers said. At the same time, high unemployment and tumbling housing prices forced residents who might have left the state in better times to stay put....
Have you got that SLICK S*** SPIN off that MSM TURD yet?
Throughout the past decade, the state lost thousands of residents to other parts of the country, raising deep concerns over its economic health, high housing costs, and overall quality of life.
You're KIDDING, Globe?!
After I have been FULL UP with HOW GREAT WE AR, according to you?!!!
PFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But
Yes, of course, Pete. BUT!!!!
this week’s estimate, a well-timed reversal that comes just months before the decennial census begins, raised hopes that Massachusetts will fare better than previously expected in the official count, which determines the number of congressional seats and can result in political redistricting and affect federal funding....
Readers, this is JUST WHAT I SAID IT IS: an AGENDA-PUSHING PIECE of BULLSHIT -- like EVERYTHING ELSE in my "newspaper!"
New births and immigration drove the bulk of the increase....
Nationally, the government’s latest state population estimates illustrate the vast scope of demographic change caused by nearly three years of economic turmoil. The steady flow to the Sun Belt slowed, while California and Nevada, states hit hard by the housing market collapse, saw more people leave than arrive. Even Florida, the country’s most reliable destination, shed a net of 31,000 people.
“I’ve studied demographic trends for 30 years, and I’ve never seen domestic migration change as dramatically as it has in the past two years,’’ said Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey Institute and a professor at the University of New Hampshire. “It’s stunning.’’
And the recession, analysts said, is driving the shifts.
What recession?
We are SUPPOSED to be OUT of that for TWO QUARTERS NOW, Globe?
Unless THAT TOO was a f***....
Aaaaaaaaarrrgggghh!!!!!!!!
“Clearly the biggest change has been the economy,’’ said Holly St. Clair, director of data services for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, a regional planning agency. “It’s much harder for people to get jobs and move out of state.’’
Nationally, the migration rate reached its lowest point since World War II last year, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank. “The credit crisis and Great Recession that followed left Americans flat-footed, as would-be movers were unable to find financing to buy a new home, buyers for their existing homes, or a new job in more desirable areas,’’ William H. Frey, a Brookings demographer, wrote in a new report titled “The Great American Migration Slowdown.’’
The growth in Massachusetts defied the regional trend. Maine and Rhode Island joined Michigan as the only three states to lose population, and New Hampshire and Vermont grew only slightly. Despite the slowdown, the South and West still grew far faster than the Northeast and Midwest, continuing a decade-plus trend....
Somebody talking, readers?
I just hear a lot of blah, blah, blah!
Nationally, Texas gained more people than any other state, followed by California, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Wyoming showed the largest percentage growth, followed by Utah, Texas, and Colorado....
Johnson predicted that migration trends will resume, although probably on a more subdued scale, when the economy picks up....
Which is WHEN exactly?
I mean, we have been told for months that it ALREADY IS!
And I DON'T MEAN Wall Street and banks, I mean WHEN are there going to be JOBS ADDED because IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT, there IS NO RECOVERY no matter HOW LOUD and HOW MANY TIMES the lying s***-sheets scream it!!!!!!
So how are we going to settle this?
Flip a coin?
Heads, BG is lying about the agenda; tails BG is pushing the agenda with lies?
"Anxious Mass. pushes census participation; Funds, House seats at stake" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | January 4, 2010
Yeah, that's what this whole post has illustrated: the agenda-pushing of the Boston Globe.
And people actually think they are getting the facts from them?
Worried government officials and nonprofits are launching widespread campaigns urging every Massachusetts household to participate in the 2010 Census in the coming months, focusing on burgeoning immigrant communities that are fueling the state’s population growth but are historically hard to count.
I think I'll toss mine this time.
Officials and nonprofit organizations are promoting the census on Brazilian talk radio shows in Boston, in a Cambodian neighborhood in Lowell, and at African churches in Worcester, among other places - rushing to get the word out before the forms are mailed to every residence in March. Officials say more than $13 billion in federal funding and a congressional seat depend on an accurate tally.
That's all the Globe is interested in: AS MUCH LOOT as Massachusetts can STEAL from the NATION'S TAXPAYERS!!!!
Census figures are used to determine where to allocate federal dollars - about $2,000 a person - for hospitals, senior centers, bridges and tunnels, job training, and emergency services nationwide, as well as to determine a state’s representation in Washington. The more people respond, officials say, the more Massachusetts benefits....
At the EXPENSE of WHO?
And it is NOT LIKE WE DO NOT HAVE MONEY here!
State Keeps Watering Evergreen
Pigs at the State Trough
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Yup, THAT is where your TAX DOLLARS ARE (or are not) GOING, Massachusetts, and where they come from!!!! Not a very good deal, is it?
Secretary of State William F. Galvin, the state’s liaison to the federal census, said the rapidly changing population is forcing officials and nonprofits to broaden their outreach to new immigrant groups. They traditionally reach out to groups from Latin America and China, but they are also attempting to inform newer groups, such as Burmese in Lowell and Ugandans in Waltham....
Don't you wish they worked so hard looking for us?
I mean, WE ARE STANDING RIGHT in FRONT of them -- and they CAN'T SEE US!!!
Maybe we WOULD be BETTER OFF being an INVISIBLE ILLEGAL, huh?
Immigrants, now 14 percent of the state, are among the hardest-to-count groups for a number of reasons. Some are unfamiliar with the census, others are from countries with repressive regimes that left them reluctant to divulge personal information to the government, and a minority are here illegally and fear deportation.
But HOW DO YOU KNOW, Globe?
Just say it and its true, right?
PFFFT!
Complicating matters, a small group is boycotting the census until illegal immigrants can apply for legal residency. Most of the state’s proimmigrant groups oppose a boycott as counterproductive.
Yes, I NOTICED how THAT ONE-DAY WONDER that should NEVER HAVE BEEN was NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN, yes, Globe!!!
I guess THAT kind of DIVISION is NOT part of the AGENDA, huh (even though the radio guy is a phone call away)?
Did you know you were naked, agenda-pushers?
The US Census is a head count of every resident in the United States, and it is required by the Constitution every 10 years.
That is about the only time this government does follow the Constitution -- once every ten years!
The government counts citizens, noncitizens, and illegal immigrants, stressing that the information is confidential. Census employees take an oath and face a $250,000 fine and five years in jail if they reveal any personal information on the forms. In March, census forms will be mailed to every household asking 10 questions, including the name, date of birth, and race of the person filling out the form, and how many people live in the home. Residents are required to fill out the form and return it in a postage-paid envelope, though the $100 fine for failing to respond is rarely imposed. Census takers will visit the homes of people who do not respond by April 1, but they prefer to receive the form by mail to get a more accurate count.
In 2000, only 69 percent of Massachusetts households returned the form by mail, close to the national average, and it was lower in many cities where a high proportion of residents are immigrants or poor....
And thus, the Globe is concerned.
Okay, now back to the state budget-cutting, 'eh?
And on the national scene?
"States in South, West see growth ebb" by Washington Post | December 24, 2009
WASHINGTON - Many of the states in the South and West that boasted the country’s highest growth rates are now experiencing a dramatic slowdown because of the recession, the Census Bureau reported yesterday. Florida and Nevada are seeing more people leave than move in, a reversal from just a year or two ago....
Hasn't that been over for a couple quarters now, WaPo?
That's what you guys have been telling us!
The state population numbers released yesterday reflect how the weak economy and the housing bust have forced many people to stay put instead of moving....
Yeah, I'm one of them!
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And while we are down there:
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas health authorities will destroy more than 5 million blood samples taken from babies without parental consent and stored indefinitely for scientific research.
Or for PLANTING at a CRIME SCENE, whichever comes first.
The Texas Department of State Health Services announced yesterday that it would destroy the samples after settling a federal lawsuit filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project on behalf of five plaintiffs.
This the same Texas DSHS that terrorized the Mormons over lies?
The lawsuit alleged that the state’s failure to ask parents for permission to store and possibly use the blood - originally collected to screen for birth defects - violated constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure.
Yeah, that is what the STATE SAYS!!
Remember how all the cameras were only supposed to be for terrorists, and now they are just a great crime-solver!
Related: Police fight cellphone recordings
Oh, I SEE!!!
The CAMERAS are ONLY FOR YOU, citizens -- not for the members of the FASCISTA PARTY of Massachushitts!!!!!!
I'll SIG HEIL before I move along!
The plaintiffs cited fears their children’s private health data could be misused.... Andrea Beleno, 33, was one of the parents who sued the state. She said she was “stunned’’ to learn that blood samples taken from her son, born in Austin in November 2008, were being stored indefinitely for unspecified research projects....
RESEARCH PROJECTS?
WTF?
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No, I DO NOT WANT a NATIONAL HEALTH TAX now, thank you.
