Explain how and why Americans benefit, or do not benefit, from immigration.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Largely, research shows Americans benefit from immigration – it raises productivity and income, modestly increases tax revenue, and contributors to innovation.
2. Universities and other professional arenas benefit from contributions of highly skilled immigrant students and workers.
3. Assimilation is highest among the highly skilled individuals described above.
4. Stereotypes about immigrants as criminals/terrorists are empirically unfounded. Some studies show that communities with historically high crime rates have lower crime rates when a wave of immigrants moves into the neighborhood.
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The counselor calculates the unbiased estimate of the population's variance to be 15. What is the variance of the distribution of means?
A) 15/20 = 0.75 B) 15/19 = 0.79 C) 152/20 = 11.25 D) 152/19 = 11.84
Some status or prestige is automatically __________ to a person as a consequence of biological characteristics such as sex or age
Fill in the blanks with correct word
The median represents the score that is
a. half of the sum of the other scores b. the most common or frequent c. in the middle d. midway between the highest and lowest scores
The __________ are people living at or below half the poverty line
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).