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Date: December 26th 2009

“Welcome to Citiwire.net and Warm Holiday Wishes To All! In that spirit, my column celebrates the continuing gift of immigrant energy to our society (and the imperative to fix outdated policies). Gail Christopher rejoices over the likely gift of care and security for millions in health care legislation moving toward passage, but warns we’ll have to keep our spirits up for tough administrative hurdles ahead.” -- Neal Peirce

Skilled Immigrants: The Stimulus We Need?

By Neal Peirce

For Release Sunday, December 27, 2009
© 2009 Washington Post Writers Group

Are skilled and entrepreneurial immigrants the economic stimulus that America needs? Could lowered barriers help regions like the country’s Rustbelt prosper again?

That’s the audacious case that Cleveland immigration attorney Richard T. Herman and his journalist co-author, Robert L. Smith, make in their new book– “Immigrant Inc.”

The mere thought that immigrants are an American asset, not a liability, puts a whole new face on the Lou Dobbs-style attacks on America’s 12 million undocumented immigrants that CNN so long tolerated, and right-wing media still promote.

Health Care Passage: Just The First Step

By Gail Christopher

For Release Saturday, December 26, 2009
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The best news about the health care legislation now on the brink of congressional approval is that the United States will be making an historic move toward providing care for all Americans at reasonable costs. Some 30 million more Americans will be covered–moving us, finally, toward the universal coverage standards long observed by all other industrialized democracies.

But–when President Obama signs the legislation, this will be a Christmas present very much in need of assembling. The added millions of insurance recipients will provide one of the most daunting management and public administration challenges we’ve ever faced. This is bigger than welfare reform, education reform, even homeland security.

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