|
|
Neb. Taking Steps to Monitor Meatpacking |
|
|
By SuperUser Account on
4/22/2006
|
|
|
|
With a bill of rights and a state watchdog, Nebraska has taken extra steps to monitor working conditions in the meatpacking industry. But Milo Mumgaard, executive director of the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, says his organization conducted a survey last summer and concluded the bill had little impact.
|
 |
|
|
More...
|
|
|
Agencies worried about proposed budget |
|
|
By SuperUser Account on
4/20/2006
|
|
|
|
How do you fund a war, a more secure nation and a constituency clamoring for tax relief? If you're President George W. Bush crafting the 2007 budget, you look for programs to cut spending. And one of the places you pick is domestic spending. The reality is, said Becky Gould, attorney with the Nebraska Appleseed Center, the proposal would cut funding while reducing revenue with tax cuts.
|
|
|
|
|
More...
|
|
|
Many Mexicans Have Jobs Before Crossing |
|
|
By SuperUser Account on
4/14/2006
|
|
|
|
APPLESEED
View articles under
Group by Center
Many Mexicans Have Jobs Before Crossing
April 14, 2006
The Associated Press
Julie Watson and Olga R. Rodriguez
A growing number of U.S. employers and migrants are tapping into an underground employment network that matches one with the other, often before the migrants leave home. Darcy Tromanhauser, of the nonprofit law project Nebraska Appleseed, said companies in need of workers rely on the networks to "pass along the information more effectively than billboards."
|
|
|
|
|
More...
|
|
|
Strategy Sessions Fueled Immigrant Marches |
|
|
By SuperUser Account on
4/12/2006
|
|
|
|
Through e-mail messages, phone calls, word of mouth, and coverage in ethnic and mainstream news media, the loose network has shared tactics and developed an ad hoc blueprint repeated from Fresno, Calif., to Omaha to Atlanta: engage Spanish-language radio DJ's, who reach millions; place leaflets in churches; and buttonhole members of Latin American soccer leagues.
|
|
|
|
|
More...
|
|
|
In Crete, fear could have kept people at work |
|
|
By SuperUser Account on
4/11/2006
|
|
|
|
Twenty-five miles away in Lincoln, people from Crete and other area towns carried banners, waved tiny American flags and made a visible claim to belonging in this state and this country. By their presence, they also spoke out against the chance lawmakers will end their immigration gridlock by deporting millions of undocumented workers and building a fence along the Mexican border. In Crete, home to hundreds of immigrants who work at the nearby Farmland pork-processing plant, things were quieter.
|
|
|
|
|
More...
|
|
|
Reporters can make a difference in community |
|
|
By SuperUser Account on
4/10/2006
|
|
|
|
Over the years in Alabama, dozens of landlord-tenant bills were introduced, but most didn't make it out of committee. According to Sebastian's reporting, this may have something to do with the fact that many Alabama legislators - almost 42 percent in 2002 - disclosed that they owned or had interest in rental property, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
|
|
|
|
|
More...
|
|
|
Invisible Workforce |
|
|
By SuperUser Account on
4/6/2006
|
|
|
|
Undocumented workers do have rights, said Nebraska Appleseed's Darcy Tromanhauser, who works with immigration integration and civic participation issues. But undocumented workers do not voice complaints or organize without the fear of retaliation from their company. Dangerous conditions and injuries go unreported. "The immigration system is preventing them from being full participants in society, and that goes against democratic principles," Tromanhauser said.
|
|
|
|
|
More...
|
|
|
Immigration's scrambled Politcs |
|
|
By SuperUser Account on
4/4/2006
|
|
|
|
In Washington last week, the immigration debate descended at times to the level of a schoolyard dispute over the semantics of amnesty. In bright-red-state Nebraska, meanwhile, the legislature (technically nonpartisan but in fact two-thirds Republican) voted to let the children of illegal immigrants get in-state tuition breaks at state colleges. D. Milo Mumgaard, executive director of the Nebraska Appleseed Center, a public-interest law group that has been lobbying for the measure, says he's hopeful that the Nebraska experience can be replicated. "We have worked hard to cast public dialogue in a way that says beating up on immigrants is very shortsighted," he says. "What we try to do here in Nebraska is remind everyone that Nebraska in particular is a state of immigrants. We're just seeing the same old, same old. It's just this time it happens to be a bunch of brown-skinned people from south of the border."
|
|
|
|
|
More...
|
|
|
Immigrants spur growth in Nebraska |
|
|
By SuperUser Account on
4/2/2006
|
|
|
|
National coverage of the immigration debate gives the impression the story is happening inside the halls of Washington, D.C., or on the streets of Los Angeles. Most would prefer to follow proper channels and get governmental authorization to be in this country. But the system provides virtually no way for them to do so, said Darcy Tromanhauser, a staff member for Nebraska Appleseed, a legal advocacy group in Lincoln.
|
|
|
|
|
More...
|
|
|
|