Tag: study
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Onalaska schools in good financial shape
Alex Hubing, a sixth grade science teacher at Onalaska Middle School, will be conducting a study in the coming academic year aimed at bridging the gap between Hmong-American students and their communities. Hmong-American students and other English Learning … Read Full Article
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Value of some government studies isn’t obvious: Letters
Re “Studying waste in federal health research” (Editorial, Aug. 10): This editorial came out about three weeks after I learned a distant relative was offering $25 per person to participate in a study of obese Hmong women. A quick search on Google … Read Full Article
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Refugees Fare Well Long-Term In The U.S., New Study Finds
The Center for American Progress and Fiscal Policy Institute looked at refugees who have lived in the U.S. for 10 years or more, focusing on Somali, Burmese, Hmong and Bosnian refugee communities. Bowling Green and Louisville are among the top-40 cities … Read Full Article
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New Report Finds Refugees Take Big Steps Toward Integration In Their First American Decade
We’ve reported on such findings before, but this comprehensive new study focuses on four major refugee groups: Somali, Burmese, Hmong, and Bosnians, amounting to a total of about 500,000 people. While reasons for fleeing their homelands differ, they have … Read Full Article
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Local Integration Key to Refugee Resettlement
For the past five years the study looked at census data and identified four groups consisting primarily of refugees — Somali, Burmese, Hmong, and Bosnians— and found they quickly became self-sufficient. Thirty-one out of 1,000 Bosnian refugees are … Read Full Article