Thursday, March 27, 2008
Left and Right talking and listening to each other
Manhattan Institute's Civic Bulletin #50 concerns immigrant integration and assimilation.
"If you look at Census data regarding the number of people who are here both as lawful permanent residents and people who are unauthorized, we need to provide several billion new hours of English- language instruction over the next seven years. To learn English it requires somewhere between 300 to 600 hours per person, depending on the profile of person you’re talking about. On the left, you have proposals that represent what I call the “fire hose” approach. They say, “Let’s throw a few hundred million dollars a year at this problem.” The left basically makes this money a giveaway of formula grants to states, so that just by having a body that needs to learn English in your state you get money. The right makes proposals for things like a $500 fee that the immigrant would pay, and then that becomes a voucher to go look for classes. You can imagine how little someone will get with $500."
"If you look at Census data regarding the number of people who are here both as lawful permanent residents and people who are unauthorized, we need to provide several billion new hours of English- language instruction over the next seven years. To learn English it requires somewhere between 300 to 600 hours per person, depending on the profile of person you’re talking about. On the left, you have proposals that represent what I call the “fire hose” approach. They say, “Let’s throw a few hundred million dollars a year at this problem.” The left basically makes this money a giveaway of formula grants to states, so that just by having a body that needs to learn English in your state you get money. The right makes proposals for things like a $500 fee that the immigrant would pay, and then that becomes a voucher to go look for classes. You can imagine how little someone will get with $500."
Labels: English
# posted by Norma : 3/27/2008 10:26:00 AM
