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Mexodus
The story provides an in depth look at the violence-driven exodus of the Mexican professionals, businessmen and middle class families to the U.S. and safer parts of Mexico. Major findings include sourcing of estimates of those displaced by the violence.
Tags: Mexico; immigration; asylum; exodus
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Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
Ojito relates her story of growing up in Cuba in the 1960's-70's, under Fidel Castro's government, and leaving Cuba in the 1980 Mariel boatlift when she was 16. She tells how the role of ordinary people in the boatlift managed to change the history of Cuba, South Florida and the U.S., as, she claims, President Carter partly lost the reelection because of the boatlift. She tells how although the White House attempted to deter the boatlift, Cubans came together to flee Cuba and arrive in Key West.
Tags: Fidel Castro; Cuba; Carter; Mariel; White House; Communist; Cold War; memoir
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Critical Condition
An investigation into the deterioration of the quality of medical care in the Cincinnati area. Ten years ago, four of the city's biggest corporate giants--Proctor & Gamble, General Electric, Kroger and Cincinnati Bell--were looking to cut their insurance costs, so they made deals with local hospitals and doctors to accept much lower reimbursement rates or pay. What followed was an exodus of doctors, a difficulty in recruiting new doctors to the area, hospital closures and cutbacks, and long waits for appointments.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; medical care; health care; Cincinnati; Ohio; insurance costs; reimbursement rates; Proctor & Gamble; General Electric; Kroger and Cincinnati Bell; hospitals; doctors
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High School Choice: The impact of student flight on schools of last resort; From excellence to exodus, Harlan strives for rebirth; Why Kids Flee
In a three-part computer-assisted investigation Catalyst reveals that, as "Chicago's public high schools have become a system of choice, ... high schools in high-poverty neighborhood ... are left with predominantly low-achieving kids and a disproportionate share of special education students." In the first part Duffrin analyses school-board data, and concludes that schools left behind have hard time attracting good students and teachers. As a result, their average test scores have been dropping over the years. In the second part the reporter focuses on one school's decline, and on its attempts to recover. The third part "explains why parents and students avoid certain schools."
Tags: enrollment data; teachers; students; parents; behavioral problems; discipline; learning disability; safety; gangs; CAR; Database Mapping Project
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Workers' Compensation Rates Drop for Six Years Since Law Change: But Neither Employers Nor Workers Are Satisfied
Two articles in this four-story package about the Arkansas insurance industry discuss changes in worker's compensation insurance. Six years after Arkansas overhauled its statutes relating to workers' comp. with passage of Act 796, premiums have dropped by an average of 35 percent. And while the state's work force has climbed over those years, indemnity claims have dropped, from 20,000 in 1993 to an estimated 13,000 in 2000. "Meanwhile, trial lawyers representing injured employees warn that the industry has been propped up on the backs of the state's workers." A second article details the claims by a former workers comp judge that she was fired for being "too fair." In a third article, Friedman writes that an exodus of health insurance carriers from the state has caused several small-business owners to fret. Finally, a fourth piece discusses the bankruptcy of Hagan Industries, Arkansas' second-largest insurance carrier.
Tags: insurance; workers' compensation; workers compensation; Hagan Industries; Act 796; health insurance
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Toil and Temptation
The third installment of the Village Voices' series investigating the influx of Mexican immigrants into New York City, and how the exodus has transformed those that have left their small villages and towns. Voice reporter Michael Kamber followed one immigrant, Antonio Gonzalez, an 18-year-old laborer from the small village of Zapotitlan in the state of Puebla. In this third installment Kamber shadows Gonzalez as he struggles with the language barrier, working 72 hours a week for minimum wage, and trying to survive in the Bronx. The Voice estimates that 75 percent of New York City's Mexican population are not upwardly mobile, nine out of ten are illegal and half the teenagers are not in school.
Tags: Immigration; immigrants; Mexicans; New York City
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Critical Condition
This article examines the Presbyterian hospital of Charlotte and finds that "in the past two years, Presbyterian hospital has suffered through a rocky merger, lost major managed-care contracts. cut hundreds of jobs and experienced an exodus of top executives."
Tags: hospitals; Charlotte; managed care; contracts
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Edison exodus
Woodward takes a look at a charter school experiment taking place in San Francisco's public school system that resulted in such problems as a faculty walkout and the project nearly being canceled.
Tags: Education; charter schools; privatization; San Francisco
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The Invisible Inner City: Poverty, Crime and Decay in Roanoke's Oldest Neighborhoods
The series analyzes the decline of seven neighborhoods that surround downtown Roanoke. Just three blocks in any direction from tourist destinations are neighborhoods in serious deterioration. The series chronicles the following: rural counties send their poor to Roanoke for more readily available social services, neighboring counties do not help finance these people's aid, the middle-class exodus stoked crime, city courts allowed the 20 landlords most often cited for building code violations to postpone repairs, the city received $50 million in federal money intended to create jobs and housing and instead spent it on downtown renovations and City Hall administration.
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The Maine Times investigates the preparedness of the state of Maine for a mass evacuation should a nuclear catastrophe occur at one of Maine's nuclear plants. While officials within the Maine Emergency Management Agency profess complete confidence in safety procedures, in recent drills the agency has failed miserably to enact a speedy, successful exodus from high-risk areas. (July 10, 1996)