They were also more likely to be well educated and to have a high socio-economic status.
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Yet the latest immigrants appear to be less well educated than native-born Californians, and some speak little or no English.
"A country that can understand and take part in the arguments that we're going to have about climate change in the coming years needs to be well-educated about science, " said Cairncross, speaking to reporters at the launch of the BA festival.
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Members of Jarrah's family live near Lebanon's border with Syria and appear to be affluent and well educated.
Personally, I believe that the next generation of billionaires will be well connected and well educated.
The only comparable event is the post-World War II Baby Boom in the US. This is an opportunity, and can be a huge challenge, because all those people will want to be well-fed, educated and productively employed.
Moreover, compared to workers in those regions, Latin Americans tend to be better paid but less well educated.
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These places also tend to be inhabited by reasonably well-educated people whose stable incomes makes them less vulnerable to contractions in competitive industries like finance, manufacturing, construction or information.
Like many economic migrants around the world, those who make for Moscow tend to be aspirational and moderately well-educated, but see their social status dip when they arrive as they take up jobs that native Muscovites balk at.
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The well-educated can be wrong, the knowledgeable can persist in foolishness for long stretches of time for a myriad of reasons.
But young minds, particularly, well educated minds need to be occupied.
If anyone can overcome professional obstacles, it will be our brilliant, resourceful, very well-educated selves.
Naruhito and Masako, who are well educated and realize what can be achieved through science, cannot be leaving things to chance, she reckons.
If the U.S. is willing to provide work visas for young, illegal immigrants, then it should also be willing to implement policies to retain well-educated, foreign nationals.
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There aren't a lot of well-educated women who would be courageous enough to completely sell out the feminist movement responsible for securing women's equal social, political and economic rights (to the degree that we have them) in favor of the 1950s' mentality that a woman's worth is determined by her marital status.
One statement that one of your experts made was that well-educated people may tend to be getting less cancer.
Some have already taken a pretty well-educated guess at who its members might be.
Even Americans most likely to be winners from trade upper-income, well-educated professionals, whose jobs are less likely to go overseas and whose industries are often buoyed by demand from international markets are increasingly skeptical.
But Progressive Education found that story unhelpful and it has fallen into obscurity, which explains why (as I alluded to before) a well-educated establishment figure like Jared Bernstein would be unaware of it.
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Governments will be sorely tempted to protect workers, but a flexible, well-educated labour force is likely to fare best in the transition.
But, regardless of how distasteful it is to well-educated and upwardly mobile young liberals, racial animosity can be an extremely potent political force, particularly when it is paired with questions about the redistribution of wealth.
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In some ways, that effect is more pronounced than it used to be, with more and more of the elites drawn from a narrow class of extremely well-educated people from a handful of metropolitan areas, few of whom have ever, say, been responsible for a profit and loss statement, or tried to bring a gas station into compliance with local and federal EPA regulations.
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