Los Angeles is becoming a “Third World city,” with immigrants making up half its workforce, says a new study.
A third of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4339 English fluently, the Migration Policy Institute found.
It said this left immigrants ill-equipped to fill California’s fastest-growing occupations, such as computer software engineering and nursing. Ernesto Cortes Jr, of the Industrial Areas Foundation, a think-tank that specialises on social change, claimed Los Angeles was at a crossroads.
“The question is are we going to be a 21st century city with shared prosperity, or a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3402 with an elite group on top and most on near poverty wages?” he said. The US Census Bureau last year predicted that by 2050, minorities will account for half of all residents across America. It registered the largest numerical increases in minority residents in metropolitan Los Angeles, Riverside, in California, Dallas, Houston and New York. In 2000, according to the Census Bureau, whites were in a minority in 262 US counties, up from 183 in 1990.
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