As mayor, Barletta had been a proto-Trump, championing a city ordinance that, among other anti-immigrant provisions, declared English the "Official language" of Hazleton and required that official city business be conducted in English only.
During our travels I exchanged notes on Twitter with Chris Arnade about his photos of people in a certain city being left behind and our profiles of the go-getters trying to move that same city ahead. Could these contrasting portrayals both be true? The answer, I think we agreed, is that we were trying in our complementary ways to portray parts of the contradictory American whole, which at every stage has involved both progress and cruel dislocation.
Peterson ran down a list of cities illustrating the effects of a new emphasis on engagement-starting, to my surprise, with the Los Angeles-area city of Bell.
Even as the national discussion grows more hateful, the lived reality of absorbing immigrants and refugees has remained remarkably calm-in the cities where they have actually arrived.
It has spread to become Welcoming America, supporting immigrant and refugee settlement in more than 50 cities.
"We're starting to see less of that brain drain. We're seeing more graduates stay in place, in cities like Pittsburgh or Columbus, and a boomerang of people returning to where they're from-for lifestyle reasons, and because they can see that their communities are rising and opportunities are increasing, and they'd like to be part of what's going on."
These efforts are a counterpart to the response that the governors of 16 states plus the territory of Puerto Rico and nearly 400 mayors made to Trump's announcement that he was leaving the Paris Agreement: Their states and cities, which together account for more than half of U.S. economic output, would continue to observe the Paris climate goals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/reinventing-america/556856/
During our travels I exchanged notes on Twitter with Chris Arnade about his photos of people in a certain city being left behind and our profiles of the go-getters trying to move that same city ahead. Could these contrasting portrayals both be true? The answer, I think we agreed, is that we were trying in our complementary ways to portray parts of the contradictory American whole, which at every stage has involved both progress and cruel dislocation.
Peterson ran down a list of cities illustrating the effects of a new emphasis on engagement-starting, to my surprise, with the Los Angeles-area city of Bell.
Even as the national discussion grows more hateful, the lived reality of absorbing immigrants and refugees has remained remarkably calm-in the cities where they have actually arrived.
It has spread to become Welcoming America, supporting immigrant and refugee settlement in more than 50 cities.
"We're starting to see less of that brain drain. We're seeing more graduates stay in place, in cities like Pittsburgh or Columbus, and a boomerang of people returning to where they're from-for lifestyle reasons, and because they can see that their communities are rising and opportunities are increasing, and they'd like to be part of what's going on."
These efforts are a counterpart to the response that the governors of 16 states plus the territory of Puerto Rico and nearly 400 mayors made to Trump's announcement that he was leaving the Paris Agreement: Their states and cities, which together account for more than half of U.S. economic output, would continue to observe the Paris climate goals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/reinventing-america/556856/
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