BY FROMA HARROP America’s fast-growing Latino population is famously hard working. It also has high rates for teenage pregnancy and dropping out of high school, two markers for poverty. Falling education levels should worry any country seeking to compete in the global economy. Are these poor immigrants “an asset or an albatross?” San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro provocatively asked the National Conference of Editorial Writers, meeting in Dallas. One thing is undeniable: America is rapidly […]
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