RAND Review: Immigration Reform, European Austerity, and Health Care Reform

In This Issue (Volume 37, Number 2: Fall 2013)

AP Images/Eduardo Verdugo

Outside the town of Unión Hidalgo in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, migrants clamber atop a freight train bound for the U.S.-Mexican border on April 29, 2013.

Cover Story

Heavy Lift: Truly Comprehensive Immigration Reform Would Span the Migrant Labor Lifecycle

By Emma Aguila and John Godges

A binational effort at labor reform — including the establishment of a binational immigration agency and the passage of a bilateral social security agreement — would benefit both the United States and Mexico.

Features

Allied Fronts: European Armies Approach Austerity in Instructive Ways

By Michael Shurkin

The British, French, and German armies are well in advance of the Americans in weighing competing priorities in light of what they assess to be the future face of war.

Ramifications of Health Reform: Seven Areas Where the Affordable Care Act Will Alter the Health Insurance Landscape

2014 will be an important year for the Affordable Care Act, as health insurance exchanges open and Medicare expands in many states. RAND analyses assess several effects of the law:

Viewing Gallery: Recent RAND Findings on Display

Serving Time or Wasting Time?

Correctional education programs improve job prospects, reduce recidivism, and save taxpayer dollars.

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Public Square

A Meeting Place for RAND Voices

Preventing suicide
Anticipating biological weapons
Living among "suffix trees"
Smackdown for Snowden
Support for privacy
Alternatives to drones
Springtime for Kurdistan
Autumn for Libya
Winter for Somalia
Kickbacks for China
Woes for Syria

Publisher's Page

To Eliminate the "Readiness Gap," Preschool Is Just the Beginning

RAND's president and CEO recommends expanded access to preschool, written materials in the home, and technology as ways to close the "readiness gap" that separates children who have access to early education resources from those who do not.

Message from the Editor

Riding the Rails

The experience of Mexican immigrants coming to the United States today mirrors that of many who made the journey before them.