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The Town of Huntington should commit itself to keep some services going for day laborers, and thus keep homelessness, vagrancy and sickness at bay.

A string of kidnappings targeting people with family in the United States has caused many people to flee Mexico.

Chinese institutions are taking advantage of the downturn and focusing on the newly unemployed to upgrade their own staffs.

Countries like Tajikistan that have come to depend on remittances are feeling the effects of the global financial crisis.

Vicious daily attacks against ethnic minorities have become a part of daily life for the millions of migrants from the former Soviet Union who work in Russia.

In a time of economic crisis, it is especially vital to uphold workers’ rights, even for those here illegally. Exploitation erodes working conditions and job security everywhere.

The Bush administration said the rules would lessen the bureaucratic burden on employers, but advocates for the workers contended the changes would depress wages and working conditions.

The Bush administration’s last-minute overhaul of the visa program for temporary farm workers threatens to make a flawed program worse.

A Central Asian migrant worker was stabbed several times and decapitated in an apparent attack by ultranationalists in Moscow.

As Spain’s economy shrinks, employers are disgorging workers at an alarming rate and immigrants in low-skilled jobs have been hit hardest.

Guest farm workers can now collect a payment of wages, decades overdue, from the Mexican government.

Steve Levy’s comments and actions against undocumented workers have tragically limited his ability to lead Suffolk County.

Just as China has attained supercharged growth that astounded much of the world, it appears to be slowing more sharply and more quickly than anyone anticipated.

When immigrant workers are being cheated out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary, there’s greed on Main Street, too.

Immigration has vanished from the presidential race, but its problems as evidenced by a raid to look for illegal janitors in Mesa, Ariz., recently are still with us.

In Nebraska, tension is emerging as Somali immigrants fill jobs once held by Latino workers taken away in raids.

Socialism's Success
The New American - 7 hours ago
Between 2000 and 2005, 1.5 million Americans with a high-school degree or less left the labor force. 15 Advocates of massive immigration, legal and illegal, ...

(New York, January 5, 2009) - Thirty years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's culture of impunity remains as strong as ever, Human Rights Watch said today.

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Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation to Appear at the Cowen & Company ...
WELT ONLINE, Germany - 10 hours ago
... the Company’s ability to adjust timely to changes in trade regulations and the migration and development of manufacturers (which can affect where the ...

Steve Lunetta: Depression revisited
Signal, CA - 7 hours ago
So Grandma and Grandpa joined the great migration across the country in their Model A, sleeping on blankets laid on the ground beside the car at night, ...