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Improving Cultural Competence: A Treatment Improvement Protocol

Report Author: 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Original Date of Publication: 
2014 Oct

Improving Cultural Competence: A Treatment Improvement Protocol

With a mission to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness, SAMSHA produces Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs) to provide evidence-based and best practice guidance to clinicians, program administrators, and payers.

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Implementing CLAS Standards and Improving Cultural Competency and Language Access: A Practical Toolkit

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Arizona Health Disparities Center
Original Date of Publication: 
2014 Oct

Implementing CLAS Standards and Improving Cultural Competency and Language Access: A Practical Toolkit

Implementing CLAS standards and improving cultural competency and language access is designed to promote use of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Ap

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Responding to Culture: Beyond Cultural Competence Training

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Rachel H. Voss-DeMeester, MPH, Kevin W. McCullough, MJ, Scott C. Cook, PhD., Mona El-Shamaa, MPH,, and Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH
Original Date of Publication: 
2014 Mar

Responding to Culture: Beyond Cultural Competence Training

While cultural competence training for health care professionals may increase awareness of cultural differences and of the need to address disparities in health outcomes, it is not enough to produce real results.

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Citizenship Matters: How Children of Immigrants Will Sway the Future of Politics

Report Author: 
Manuel Pastor, Justin Scoggins, Vanessa Carter & Jared Sanchez
Original Date of Publication: 
2014 Jul

Citizenship Matters: How Children of Immigrants Will Sway the Future of Politics

Citizenship Matters assesses the long-term political consequences of a failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform. They argue that those who fear that a path to citizenship for the undocumented will be a path to defeat for the Republican Party are misguided in their thinking.

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Does Immigration Increase Economic Growth?

Report Author: 
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Original Date of Publication: 
2014 Dec

Does Immigration Increase Economic Growth?

The author reviews the evidence on whether immigration helps or harms American workers. The consensus among economists is that increased immigration leads to higher economic growth and that immigrants complement rather than displace native-born workers.

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Immigrants Working for U.S. Pharmaceuticals

Report Author: 
Shaun Michel and James Witte
Original Date of Publication: 
2014 Aug

Immigrants Working for U.S. Pharmaceuticals

This paper analyzes the role of immigrants in the pharmaceutical industry and is the first in a series about the economic contributions of immigrants in key industries in the United States. In 2011, immigrants represented 13 percent of the U.S. population but accounted for 17 percent of the workforce in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Bringing Vitality to Main Street: How Immigrant Small Businesses Help Local Economies Grow

Report Author: 
David Dyssegaard Kallick
Original Date of Publication: 
2015 Jan

Immigrants were responsible for all of the net growth in Main Street business nationally and in 31 of the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas between 2000 and 2013. This is the main finding of a first-of-its-kind report that demonstrates the high value of immigrants to local economies, particularly as Main Street business owners, and their importance in building healthy, safe and economically viable neighborhoods.

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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Report Author: 
William R. Kerr
Original Date of Publication: 
2013 Aug

In the 2008 Current Population Survey, immigrants represented 16 percent of the United States workforce with a bachelor's education. Moreover, immigrants accounted for 29 percent of the growth in this workforce during the 1995-2008 period. Exceeding these strong overall contributions, the role of immigrants within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields is even more pronounced. Even so, the importance of the global migration of STEM talent has been under-studied. In this paper, "U.S.

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The Role of Formal Corporate Governance Arrangement and Social Capital in Community and Family

Report Author: 
Lei Xu and Wei Du
Original Date of Publication: 
2013 Sep

The authors of this paper empirically test the relation between immigrants' venture creation decisions and governance mechanism under a unified framework of governance in both sociology and finance. They find that corporate governance arrangements are more valued by entrepreneurs with better education attainment and higher household income such as immigrant entrepreneurs. This type of entrepreneur tends to be more reluctant to create a venture due to the high opportunity costs.

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