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Governor to consider health care bill |
Legislators sent Gov. Kathleen Sebelius health care legislation that supporters say provides greater access to health care for many Kansans and saves them money on insurance.
But Sebelius doesn't think it goes far enough.
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Immigration bill unlikely to live |
It appears unlikely that the Legislature this year will pass a law cracking down on illegal immigrants and employers who hire them.
For the second time Friday, the House blocked a full debate on a compromise immigration bill.
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Latinos one step closer to a D.C. museum |
WASHINGTON -- American Indians got one in 2004. African-Americans are set to get a new one within a decade. Yet Hispanics, the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority, have no museum of their own in the nation's c |
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Democracy program aims to bolster Hispanics' political clout |
WICHITA, Kan. | The dozen immigrants gathered at the Sunflower Community Action's democracy class repeated the question, slowly and in unison.
"What is the most important right granted to United States citizens?"
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New study builds on old one to track Mexican Am. progress |
After finding questionnaires from a 1965 survey in a UCLA basement, two professors followed up with about 700 of the participants and their children. The news is good and bad.
In 1992, construction workers retrofit |
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Report says Latinos underrepresented in federal jobs |
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WASHINGTON - Although the percentage of Hispanics in the federal work
force increased over the past decade, it still lags behind the number
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Analysis: No simple solution in works |
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Immigration debate could end without the passing of a bill - A strong push to deal with illegal immigration has been blunted, diverted and slowed so much that it could end in little more than a muddled mess |
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Chicano art, beyond rebellion |
VISITORS to the sprawling Chicano art show opening today at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are greeted by a display of photos depicting a group of daring guerrilla street artists known as ASCO, Spanish for "nausea." The photographs are fro |
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Maria Elena Salinas: New dropout numbers foreshadowed |
Many Americans reacted with shock and awe to a recent report stating that more than 1.2 million young people in the United States do not graduate from high school annually. But not me. Not only did it not surprise me, but I was glad to see it. |
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Hispanic Unemployment Increases to 6.9% |
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Missouri treasurer misread illegal immigration study |
JEFFERSON CITY | In her first big policy foray since jumping into the race for governor, Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman last week went after a familiar target - illegal immigrants.
The Republican presented a report to a Senate comm |
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U.S. tries to shut revolving door of illegal reentry |
The effort includes combing California prisons and jails for illegal immigrants who have previously been deported. Federal authorities are cracking down on immigrants who were previously |
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Are You an American? Prove It |
A citizenship rule costs states millions but nets few illegals. Bernice Todd's Choctaw family roots are sunk deep in the soil of Oklahoma, a state whose very name is Choctaw for "r |
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Teen driver legislation through one barricade |
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TOPEKA - After kicking around the idea for more than a year, a House panel finally settled Tuesday on a bill placing new restrictions on teen drivers.
The House Transportation Committee advanced their own version of legislation aimed at reduci |
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Health reforms pass Kansas House |
The Kansas House today passed a series of health care reforms including more money to help poor pregnant women, changes to make some insurance policies more affordable and flexible, and funding for additional cancer screenings.
The bill also inc |
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Lawmaker: Keep immigrant tuition |
A key legislator said Thursday he opposes efforts to repeal a state
law that allows in-state tuition for some undocumented students.
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Profiling bill too tough, police say |
At issue: How much race can matter when deciding who to stop. Data collection and definitions dominated discussion Thursday of a bill intended to st |
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Subcommittee launches reform effort |
The chairman of a newly appointed House subcommittee has promised to have a health reform bill put together within a week.
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Chairman: Health bill expected next week |
The chairman of a House subcommittee says he expects a health care reform bill to emerge from his panel next week.
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Immigration laws affect mixed families |
When Kecia Sales and Juan Marquez were married, they were like
scores of other couples: very much in love with plans to live together
for the rest of their lives.
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State's business conditions improve in February |
Kansas' Business Conditions Index moved higher in February, a Creighton
University survey of business leaders and supply managers said today.
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Lawsuit filed over man deported and lost in Mexico |
A Los Angeles man with mental problems, who spent three months lost
in Mexico after being deported despite being a U.S. citizen, sued
homeland security and immigration officials on Wedne |
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Immigration: No Correlation With Crime |
Despite our melting-pot roots, Americans have often been quick to
blame the influx of immigrants for rising crime rates. But new research
released Monday shows that immigrants in California are, in fact, far
less likely than U.S.-born Californi |
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Labor at the heart of immigration debate |
As a cotton farmer in southwest Oklahoma, Tom Buchanan sees the
immigration debate as much about labor as it is about illegally
crossing borders.
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