The rapid rise in the proportion of foreign-born residents in the United States since the mid-1960s is one of the most important demographic events of the past

American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants, half are unauthorized, and most

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn hel

Poverty declined significantly in the decade after Lyndon Johnson's 1964 declaration of "War on Poverty." Dramatically increased federal funding for education a

This volume uses recent research from the World Bank to document and analyze the bidirectional relationship between poverty and migration in developing countrie