Tuesday, December 23, 2008
POLL SHOWS PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR EXTENDING SCHIP TO LEGAL IMMIGRANT KIDS
Child advocacy group First Focus has
commissioned a poll which shows, among other things, that more than 2/3 of the public supports extending children's health benefits under the SCHIP program to legal immigrant children.
# posted by Greg Siskind @ 8:58 AM
Friday, December 5, 2008
ARMED FORCES TO RECRUIT FOREIGN DOCTORS AND NURSES
The Department of Defense is
dropping its requirement that physicians and nurses must have green cards in response to persistent shortages in those fields. The MDs and RNs who sign on will be able to fast-track toward citizenship. The DOD news release on the change can be found
here and
here.
# posted by Greg Siskind @ 10:22 PM
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