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Eleventh of thirty-one profiles. Geisha Williams was a cashier in her parents' grocery store and ended up running California's largest utility.
Ninth of thirty-one profiles. Nina Vaca's story opens the entrepreneurship chapter of a textbook American business students read.
Eighth of thirty-one profiles. Sandra Cisneros wrote in her twenties the book that defined Chicana literature, and she is still arguing with the country that teaches...
Fifth of thirty-one profiles. Luis von Ahn figured out how to use the seconds the world loses proving it is not a robot.
Fourth of thirty-one profiles. At 96 she is still organizing, and this year she made the hardest decision of her public life.
Third of thirty-one profiles. From the crews of the San Joaquin Valley to Harvard, and from Harvard to the operating room where the impossible tumors are...
Second of thirty-one profiles. Ellen Ochoa reached space in 1993 and twenty years later was running the center that trains the astronauts.
The longest available series covers a century and a half and records no period in which immigrants were incarcerated more than the American-born.
Between 1996 and 2002, the United States sent roughly 31,000 convicts to Central America. The criminal structure now attributed to the region was built in the...
In 40 states, undocumented immigrants pay higher effective state and local tax rates than the top 1 percent of earners in those same states.