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Critic of Immigration Proposal Cited Lower I.Q. of Immigrants in Dissertation

By Ashley Parker and Kitty Bennett The New York Times
A co-author of a new Heritage Foundation study highly critical of the Senate’s bipartisan immigration proposal also wrote a doctoral dissertation in which he argued that immigrants generally had an I.Q. that was “substantially lower than that of the white native population.”

Surprise Fast Food Strike Planned in St. Louis

By Josh Eidelson Salon
These fast food campaigns, and the recent strike wave against Wal-Mart, represent the most dramatic challenges by the embattled U.S. labor movement to two industries that increasingly define the new U.S. economy.