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May 31 2018 | Washington Post
White Americans are increasingly critical of the country’s social safety net, a new study suggests, thanks in part to a rising tide of racial resentment.
The study, conducted by researchers at two California universities and published Wednesday in the journal Social Forces, finds that opposition...
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May 30 2018 | Stanford News
Wars and clan structure may explain a strange biological event 7,000 years ago, Stanford researchers find
Genetic data suggest there was a collapse in male, but not female, genetic diversity starting 7,000 years ago. The reason may be wars between clans structured around male ancestry.
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May 23 2018 | Stanford News
A generous donation from VMware supports research and greater collaboration between Stanford researchers and business leaders as the answer to long-term, sustainable progress.
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May 13 2018 | NPR
Fact-Checking What John Kelly Said About Immigration
Tomas Jimenez, a sociology professor at Stanford, tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro that recent arrivals assimilate just as fast as previous generations.
Continue reading NPR's interview with Tomás Jiménez
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May 9 2018 | Urban Institute
ICE worksite raids are back. Here’s what we know about them.
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a large-scale worksite raid at a meat processing plant in Bean Station, Tennessee, arresting 97 immigrants and grabbing national headlines. This action represents one of the...
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May 2 2018 | Stanford News
Karen Cook, the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology, Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS), and Vice-Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Stanford, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States.
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Apr 25 2018 | ABA Journal
Underreporting makes notario fraud difficult to fight
If you need to understand a problem in order to solve it, lawyers who fight immigration legal-services fraud are in trouble. Accurate data is impossible to get, they say, because it’s extremely underreported.
One potential solution: making...
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Apr 11 2018 | VOX
Motivated reasoning, bias, fake news, conspiracy theories, and more, explained.
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Apr 5 2018 | Migration Policy Institute
The Migration Policy Institute covers Tomás Jiménez's research on immigration.
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Mar 30 2018 | The New York Times
The New York Times quotes Tomás Jiménez in the article titled "The Americans Our Government Won’t Count."
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