Faculty Fellow Roberto Suro was cited in a recent New York Times article about the recent influx of immigrant workers to suburban neighborhoods throughout the country, according to the US Census Bureau. Suro noted several years ago that immigrants were migrating to areas with the largest demand for construction workers. "The leveraged asset was the work of the immigrants. The long-term payout was the social requirement to settle them and look after their children."……Continue Reading Suro – NYT “Immigrant Path”
News
The Game-Changer List
The Associated Press, as usual, released last week its editors' poll of the 10 top stories of the year. No. 1, with 54 first-place votes, was the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The congressional passage of health care reform was second with 30 votes. The list by the men and women who actually edit our news continued: (3) midterm elections; (4) U.S. economy; (5) Haiti earthquake; (6) tea party movement; (7) Chile mine rescue; (8) Iraq; (9) WikiLeaks; (10) Afghanistan. All of those were obviously big stories. But hold the presses! It is not a list I would……Continue Reading The Game-Changer List
Year End Success… Our Government Can Actually Work. Is Nirvana Here?
It is amazing what a deadline can do to focus the hearts and minds of our government. In the final days of the lame-duck session, Congress passed and sent to the president a major piece of tax and economic stimulus legislation, including the extension of unemployment benefits; the repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell', the nearly 20-year old Pentagon policy; historic food safety legislation; and the landmark START Treaty on nuclear weapons reduction. Most importantly, all were passed with bipartisan support. Maybe one of the lessons of all of this is to shorten the congressional session to one month per……Continue Reading Year End Success… Our Government Can Actually Work. Is Nirvana Here?
Schell’s NYT book review
The New York Times featured a book review written by Senior Fellow Orville Schell on December 12. Schell, an expert on US-China relations asks "but with the West's power and confidence now declining, and China's authoritarian form of capitalism ripsawing its way toward an ever more dominant position in the world, a reader may be forgiven for becoming somewhat impatient. Is Morris ever going to answer the 'burning question'? Who will win the next phase of our East-West horse race, the United States or China?"……Continue Reading Schell’s NYT book review
Seib to speak at PubD conference in New Delhi
Faculty Fellow Phil Seib will be speaking at a conference on public diplomacy organised by the external affairs ministry of New Delhi on Friday, Dec. 10. Also speaking at the conference will be Nicholas Cull, USC Annenberg professor of Communication. An article about the conference and its speakers can be found on Sify News. [follow-up information from Live-PR]……Continue Reading Seib to speak at PubD conference in New Delhi
Public TV stations face challenges on West, East Coasts
All of the PBS TV stations in the state of New Jersey may go off the air entirely early next year. The New Jersey network's governing authority meets on Wednesday to consider how to survive – or sell. Kept alive by a subsidy by state taxpayers that is scheduled to end shortly, one option on the table is a merger with New York City's WNET and/or Philadelphia's WHYY. This news comes as KCET in Los Angeles prepares to drop PBS programming in three weeks in favor of an independent public TV schedule that starts next month…….Continue Reading Public TV stations face challenges on West, East Coasts
Richard Reeves Reads from ‘Portrait of Camelot’ on VF
On Vanity Fair's website, visitors can listen to an excerpt from Portrait of Camelot as read by the author and Senior Fellow, Richard Reeves…….Continue Reading Richard Reeves Reads from ‘Portrait of Camelot’ on VF
Fiscal challenge needs bipartisanship
This article was written by CCLP Senior Fellow Dan Glickman and co-authored by Frank Keating. The original article can be found at TheHill.com. America is facing two enormous challenges that can only be overcome if both political parties work together: (1) creating new jobs and (2) stabilizing the soaring federal debt. These are not Democratic or Republican issues — they are American issues that require both political parties to set aside their differences and work together, in a patriotic spirit, as we have always done when our nation is at risk. The persistent high unemployment and skyrocketing debt we face……Continue Reading Fiscal challenge needs bipartisanship
Bennis cited in article on Fast Company
"On a much more elevated scale, I was totally absorbed by [Distinguished Fellow] Warren Bennis's Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership," said James Kristie, editor and associate publisher, Directors & Boards on an article on Fast Company where leaders of NGOs and corporate social responsibility divisions are reading. "One of the truly renowned tracers of 'the DNA of leadership,' a term this much-credentialed USC professor uses to describe his research into the rulers of the corporate and nonprofit worlds in his decades-long quest to understand what it is that makes these leaders tick…….Continue Reading Bennis cited in article on Fast Company
Klein in the Ventura County Star
"There's a revolution going on," Executive in Residence Jeffrey Klein told an audience of students, faculty and residents at California State University-Channel Islands. "The world of news and entertainment is dramatically different from what it was 10 years ago, even one year ago. The changes are so dramatic and so revolutionary it's not clear who's going to survive." Klein was speaking of ever-changing media landscape, and was quoted in the Ventura County Star…….Continue Reading Klein in the Ventura County Star