"They Came Here to Work."
11/16/06
A just-completed study by Dr. Elaine Lacy, research director for the Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies at the University of South Carolina, provides enlightening and encouraging news about America's Newest, Fastest Growing Workforce. Among her findings:
The immigrants were older than we expected and more educated. Mexican males had an average of nine years of education.
Lacy said undocumented immigrants are ineligible for any public assistance, and approximately 70 percent of the Mexican immigrants interviewed were undocumented. "Overuse of public funds is simply not an issue among the state’s Mexican immigrant population," she said.
Other than public education, the only other public service utilized was WIC, a Medicaid program available to qualifying families when their children are born in the United States. Only 15 percent of the families interviewed had children born in the U.S., but not all of those qualified for the WIC program.
Of the 181 immigrants interviewed, only four were unemployed. "They came here to work," Lacy said. "They want to help with living expenses for family members in Mexico and to save money for housing, businesses and retirement in Mexico."
Read more of this report at: http://www.wltx.com/sports/story.aspx?storyid=44073
One last finding to highlight:
Nearly half the respondents said they were making efforts to learn English. One-quarter said they were taking formal English classes, while nearly an additional 25 percent said they were learning from purchased tapes, watching English television and reading English publications. Lacy said 30 percent cited learning the language as the biggest need of the Mexican community.
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TV Trainer recognizes the importance and long-term need for ESL (English as a Second Language). The average American adult knows 10,000-40,000 words. For businesses wanting to teach English to their employees, that can be an expensive and time-consuming proposition. TV Trainer's scenario-based programs, designed to teach how-to-do-a-job, have incorporated a more cost-effective approach to teaching English. It's called VOCATIONAL ESL (or VESL). We've identify and include the English Actions, Words and Items necessary to the performance of a task in each show. Our VESL approach teaches English "a job at a time." This cost-efficient approach starts paying for itself in higher performance and happier, more competent employees from Day One.
Craig Evans for TV Trainer
"Recognized by Restaurant Business Magazine as one of '50 Great Ideas' for the Fast/Casual Dining Industry."
A just-completed study by Dr. Elaine Lacy, research director for the Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies at the University of South Carolina, provides enlightening and encouraging news about America's Newest, Fastest Growing Workforce. Among her findings:
The immigrants were older than we expected and more educated. Mexican males had an average of nine years of education.
Lacy said undocumented immigrants are ineligible for any public assistance, and approximately 70 percent of the Mexican immigrants interviewed were undocumented. "Overuse of public funds is simply not an issue among the state’s Mexican immigrant population," she said.
Other than public education, the only other public service utilized was WIC, a Medicaid program available to qualifying families when their children are born in the United States. Only 15 percent of the families interviewed had children born in the U.S., but not all of those qualified for the WIC program.
Of the 181 immigrants interviewed, only four were unemployed. "They came here to work," Lacy said. "They want to help with living expenses for family members in Mexico and to save money for housing, businesses and retirement in Mexico."
Read more of this report at: http://www.wltx.com/sports/story.aspx?storyid=44073
One last finding to highlight:
Nearly half the respondents said they were making efforts to learn English. One-quarter said they were taking formal English classes, while nearly an additional 25 percent said they were learning from purchased tapes, watching English television and reading English publications. Lacy said 30 percent cited learning the language as the biggest need of the Mexican community.
________________________________________________________
TV Trainer recognizes the importance and long-term need for ESL (English as a Second Language). The average American adult knows 10,000-40,000 words. For businesses wanting to teach English to their employees, that can be an expensive and time-consuming proposition. TV Trainer's scenario-based programs, designed to teach how-to-do-a-job, have incorporated a more cost-effective approach to teaching English. It's called VOCATIONAL ESL (or VESL). We've identify and include the English Actions, Words and Items necessary to the performance of a task in each show. Our VESL approach teaches English "a job at a time." This cost-efficient approach starts paying for itself in higher performance and happier, more competent employees from Day One.
Craig Evans for TV Trainer
"Recognized by Restaurant Business Magazine as one of '50 Great Ideas' for the Fast/Casual Dining Industry."
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