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February 23

Have there been any studies done on immigrants who come to the U.S. through the diversity visa lottery?

Have there been any studies done on immigrants who come to the U.S. through the diversity visa lottery? For instance, are such immigrants less educated than the U.S. average? More dependent on welfare than the U.S. average? Poorer than the U.S. average? Et cetera. 68.96.93.163 (talk) 03:37, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This looked at incarceration rates of immigrants based on country of origin and found those from countries eligible for the diversity visa was below the US born average (which I assume mean it's also below the US average) [1]. It did not look at the actual visa as that data was not recorded in their source. Nil Einne (talk) 02:44, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, from a quick look at the data, I think for some countries of birth like Algeria, Bulgaria, Albania, Uzbekistan, Togo (and a bunch of others) the rate is low enough and the percentage of diversity visa immigrants high enough that even assuming all the incarcerated were diversity visa admissions, it's impossible for the incarceration rate to be higher than the US born incarceration rate. Nil Einne (talk) 05:34, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jimmy Gomez

What happend to Jimmy Gomez at the last election? Reelected, defeated? Bahnmoeller (talk) 13:04, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reelected, as indicated in California's 34th congressional district. It would be nice if someone updated his own page. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:03, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A source might be Elections 2018: Congressman Jimmy Gomez wins first full term in California’s 34th District against Kenneth Mejia. Perhaps somebody who understands American election jargon could do the necessary? Alansplodge (talk) 12:13, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why special – extraordinary always dominates over general and determines this general?

LTA - see talk

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Why special – extraordinary always dominates over general and determines this general?--109.252.29.67 (talk) 11:34, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There's some general interest here. The question appears to relate to company meetings. See Special General Meeting and Annual general meeting. A special resolution is one which company law (in England and Wales specifically, but other common law jurisdictions may not be very different) requires a 75% majority to pass. An ordinary resolution requires only a simple majority. 2A02:C7F:BE2D:9E00:7485:64D1:8F09:C01A (talk) 19:11, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Special" is like "unique". "Extraordinary" is like "more than ordinary". "General" is like "not specific". ~ R.T.G 01:23, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]