“I speak little English,” she said in a hesitant and heavily accented interview in her lawyer’s office. “But my English is fine for San Luis.”
Mrs. Cabrera may be able to get her point across in English, but whether she is proficient enough in the language to serve on the governing board of this bilingual border city has deeply divided the 25,000 residents.
What began as an effort by political opponents to block Mrs. Cabrera from the ballot for a seat on the City Council has mushroomed into an uncomfortable discussion of just how fluent Arizona officeholders need to be. Like many other states, Arizona has long required politicians at all levels to speak, read and write English, but the law fails to spell out just what that means. Is grade-school knowledge enough? Must one speak flawlessly? Who is to decide?
Click here to see more information about the unbanked and underbanked rates in these cities.
(via CFED: The Most Unbanked Places in America)
Although many of the most unbanked “places” in America are small and rural towns, the most unbanked census tracts are urban. Of 63,900 census tracts in the country, the tract with the highest unbanked rate is located in Savannah, GA; 42.4% of households in this tract are unbanked and 35.3% are underbanked. Compare this to the city of Savannah where 13.1% are unbanked and the Savannah metro area where 8.3% are unbanked. The second most unbanked tract in the U.S. is located in Cleveland, OH at 42.3% unbanked. Of the top 100 most unbanked census tracts in the country, 7 are in El Paso, TX, 6 are inCleveland, OH and 5 are in Los Angeles, CA.
Use the mapping tool to view the concentration of un- and underbanked households down to the census tract level. To view the complete unbanked profile for your community, use the data tool at Research Your Community.
To view map of underbanked households, click on the Add Data Layer button and select “Underbanked” from the menu that appears as you scroll over. Select “Unbanked” from the same menu to return to the previous map.
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Changes to the way autism is diagnosed may make it harder for many people who would no longer meet the criteria to get health, educational and social services, researchers say.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook who had previously remained silent about the bills, weighed in by late Wednesday afternoon. He posted on his own Facebook page, saying: “The world today needs political leaders who are pro-Internet. We have been working with many of these folks for months on better alternatives to these current proposals.”
Within an hour, more than 200,000 Facebook users had clicked the Like button on his post.
(via In Piracy Bill Fight, New Economy Rises Against Old - NYTimes.com)
“I think it is an important moment in the Capitol,” said Representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California and an important opponent of the legislation. “Too often, legislation is about competing business interests. This is way beyond that. This is individual citizens rising up.”
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