President Barack Obama tapped a registered nurse, Mary Wakefield, RN, Ph.D. , FAAN, to head the Health Resources and Services Administration(HRSA), an agency that helps deliver health care to the uninsured and underserved in America.
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Would people favor immigration if they knew how many of our biggest companies exist because of it?
John has already written here at Splice about the anachronistic American immigration laws that make it difficult for skilled, legal immigrants to settle here. Today, The Economist’s Lexington blog makes its own case:
Chinese and Indian immigrants founded more than half of all high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. Immigrants co-founded Google, Intel, eBay and Yahoo. Immigrants contributed to more than a quarter of US global patent applications. Immigrant-founded companies employed 450,000 workers in 2006 and generated $52 billion in revenue.
I don’t know how you could argue with those numbers. One pro-immigration argument has been “America is a nation of immigrants,” but it seems to me that the more effective argument would be to point to the Fortune 500 companies that wouldn’t exist had immigrants not wanted to come to America. Financially, immigration makes sense.
But then again, the anti-immigration views in America largely resemble that infamous South Park “They Took Our Jobs!” episode. But America deserves better. Under Obama, maybe we’ll get something better.
For more information on this subject:
Read this article from SpliceToday.com
Because passing the NCLEX is usually the final step in the nurse licensure process, the number of people passing the NCLEX (“pass rate”) is a good indicator of how many new nurses are entering the profession in the U.S.
These tables provide the most recent data on the NCLEX testing volume and the associated pass rates. In addition, NCSBN has listed the top five countries where nurses were educated outside the U.S. and who are taking the NCLEX examination in hopes of obtaining nursing employment in the U.S.
For more detailed NCLEX Examination statistics, including historical pass rates, see Exam Psychometrics under the NCLEX Examinations section of NCSBN’s website, www.ncsbn.org.
For general information about the NCLEX:
Visit the NCLEX Examinations section of NCSBN’s website.
In a national survey released Jan. 15 by Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, 43% of respondents said they view reforming healthcare as a top concern, ranking it third behind improving the economy at 73% and fighting terrorism at 48%. Nurse Leaders in Florida were asked how they would advise the new president to improve the U.S. healthcare system.
For more information on the subject:
Read this article from Nurse.com
IFCO Systems North America, the largest pallet management services company in the U.S., headquartered in Houston, Texas, has agreed to pay $20.7 million in civil forfeitures and penalties over four years after employing undocumented workers at its plants.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted the large worksite enforcement operation that led to the discovery. The settlement amount includes $2.6 million in back pay and penalties relating to IFCO’s overtime violations with respect to 1,700 of its pallet workers. IFCO is also paying $18.1 million in civil forfeitures that will be available to support future law enforcement activities.
For more information on the largest settlement ever in a worksite enforcement case:
Read this press release from ICE
