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Search results for "migration" ...
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World of Pain
“Retail sales of five leading painkillers nearly doubled from 1997 to 2005, reflecting a surge in use by patients nationwide who are living in a world of pain, according to a new Associated Press analysis of federal drug prescription data. The analysis reveals that oxycodone usage is migrating out of Appalachia to areas such as Columbus, Ohio, and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and significant numbers of codeine users are living in many suburban neighborhoods around the country.â€
Tags: prescription drugs; oxycodone; federal prescription drug data; codeine; Drug Enforcement Administration; painkillers; prescription; drug abuse; narcotics; ARCOS; Census Bureau
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Into and out of west-central Florida
Analysis of IRS migration data showed that a large number of people were moving into the Tampa Bay area between 2000 and 2005. Most of those newcomers were from elsewhere in Florida.
Tags: data analysis; IRS; population; Florida; migration;
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Lost in Migration
This series investigated immigration consultants in Canada, who were willing to "cook up bogus refugee stories and say marriages of convenience are possible." "As part of the investigation, a multilingual team of reporters secretly shopped consultants by phone and, wired with hidden cameras, in person."
Tags: immigration consultants; immigration advisors; refugee; mismanagement;
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A buffalo Stampede: Upstate N.Y. Leads Charge to Charlotte Region, Analysis Finds
Studying migration data from the IRS, The Charlotte Observer found that migration to the region was being led by upstate New Yorkers.
Tags: migration; New York; interstate; IRS; Eric County; Buffalo; Monroe County; Rochester
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Sealing Our Borders: Why It Won't Work
A four-part series examines the feasibility of sealing the 2,000 mile US-Mexican border and potential economic, political, environmental and cultural effects of doing so.
Tags: Immigration; Border Patrol; Immigrants; Mexico; illiegal entrant; smuggle; border security; migration; national park
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Minorities on the Move, Often Unpredictably
This article uses mapping software and census data to show new patterns in the movement of minority groups. A county by county analysis shows what motivates certain groups to move to certain places.
Tags: census; migration; migrant workers; maps
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Faith amid growing Masses: Collin sees Baptist stronghold fade as wave of Catholics migrates to area
In the last 10 years in Dallas and Collin counties, a 50-year trend in religious affiliation has been reversed. Catholicism has become the dominant religion in previously Baptist strongholds. The story, based on data from the Census and the Glenmary Research Center in Nashville, Tenn., examines how migration over the years has changed the religious makeup and how that in turn has changed communities.
Tags: faith; religion; Baptists; Catholics; demographics
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A Quiet Crisis
Using a database of more than 490,000 alumni, The Plain Dealer 's two-part series tracked where graduates of Ohio's colleges and universities go after getting their degrees. "The findings: The better educated the graduates, the more elite the school that produced them and the more attractive their degrees for economic development, the more likely they are to leave. And by a good margin."
Tags: college graduates; Ohio; brain drain; alumni; migration; population
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¿Dónde está la frontera? Where is the border?
Millions try each year to slip into the United States through its "soft underbelly" --the U.S. - Mexico border. It's no longer just Mexicans and Central Americans who attempt to cross from Mexico. The article talk about the INS attempts to globalize their polices.
Tags: INS; undocumented immigrants; migration