Business, Economics and Jobs
Science Friday
October 13, 2017
“Let us all come together so we can go as one and move another place instead of flooding out every year because we’re getting older,” says one resident of Pecan Acres, in Pointe Coupee Parish. “We’ll be better off. We won’t got to worry about worrying when the storms come.”
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Science, Tech & Environment
Global warming will increase poverty in the southern US, a new study says
Living on Earth
July 23, 2017
According to a study published in the journal Science, global warming will devastate the economy in parts of the US in years ahead, if temperatures are allowed to rise unabated.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Forget Dora The Explorer: Where are all the kids books on immigrant communities?
PRI's The World
December 11, 2014
Advocates are pushing for more diversity in children's literature and that includes books about immigrant families.
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Conflict & Justice
Why would any parent send their kids on the deadly trip to cross the Mexico-US border? Here's why.
PRI's The World
August 18, 2014
Updated
A young couple from El Salvador explains why they crossed illegally into the US and how rising danger in their homeland forced their children on the dangerous trip north to join them.
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Science, Tech & Environment
Sudanese American parents look at Ahmed Mohamed and think of their own kids
PRI's The World
September 18, 2015
After a Sudanese American teenager was arrested and detained in Texas for bringing a homemade digital clock to school, Sudanese American parents wonder what Ahmed Mohamed's story means for their kids growing up in the US.
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Conflict & Justice
Families that are deported after crossing the border say they return home feeling hopeless and desperate
PRI's The World
September 04, 2014
This year, an increasing number of Central American attempted to enter the US illegally. Now, as many are deported back home, there are concerns that due process was not served while they were held in detention facilities in the United States.
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Conflict & Justice
Protests spread north over unaccompanied migrant children coming to 'our town'
PRI's The World
July 21, 2014
At first, there were isolated protests in border states like California and Arizona over relocating migrant children to detention centers while they awaited immigration proceedings. This weekend, anger and protests spread across the US, reaching New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and even Alaska.
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Lifestyle & Belief
Islamic faith finds a fertile home in the Latin American community
PRI's The World
December 23, 2013
Islam is among the fastest growing religions in the United States, but not ll of the converts are who you'd expect. Among the converts are a growing number of immigrants from Latin America.
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Business, Economics and Jobs
How do you fight organized crime in Mexico? With small business loans and after-school programs
PRI's The World
January 02, 2014
For the last six years, a little-known infusion of American tax dollars has played a part in the fight against organized crime in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. Part of the money for the Merida Initiative is used to keep young people out of drug cartels and help boost the economy.
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Politics
To this shotgun-carrying mosque protester, Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric has gone too far
PRI's The World
March 03, 2016
Even for a man who protests outside mosques with a shotgun, Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric has gone too far.
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Conflict & Justice
President Obama hits pause on his immigration plan. Now what?
PRI's The World
February 17, 2015
A federal judge in Texas orders a temporary halt to the president's immigration plans. Let the legal tussle begin.