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 Many people with physical handicaps and immigrant backgrounds meet closed doors in the labour market. Norway’s largest work training programme – Telenor Open Mind – on Aug. 19 celebrated 15 years of successfully motivating physically handicapped job seekers and help them get ready to take part in working life. Minister of Labour Hanne Bjurstrøm [...] Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion Audun Lysbakken’s speech to immigrant groups on the 26th of July has been translated into 15 different languages. In his speech Lysbakken says, among other things, “I am keen to maintain good dialogue with the immigrant population and its representatives. Firstly, we must stand united in our grief, [...] Registered unemployment among immigrants increased from 6.6 per cent in November 2009 to 7.1 per cent in November 2010. In the rest of the population, this rate increased slightly from 2.0 to 2.1 per cent. The growth in the unemployment among immigrants has been relatively moderate in the past year compared to the strong increase [...] OSLO, Norway – Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg bowed to public pressure and announced that its government is changing a law that affects foreigners with Norwegian spouses. For Full Story & Source: ABS CBN News Huge capital losses within households at the top of the income distribution contracted income differentials. 2008 was once again a year of substantial rises in household income. The median equivalent income rose by 3.9 percent in fixed prices. The corresponding figure for 2007 was 7.5 percent. Weaker growth in top incomes People at the top [...] Curt Rice, Vice Rector for Research and Development at the University of Tromsø, has been named one of Norway’s ten most successful immigrants of 2009. The Leadership Foundation is responsible for the Top 10 project, an annual award that recognises five women and five men with an immigrant background who have made an impact on [...] At the Storting election last year the electoral turnout among Norwegian citizens with an immigrant background was 24 percentage points lower than the total electoral turnout at 76.4 percent. Electors with a background from North and Central America, and Oceania recorded the highest voter turnout with 69 percent. The lowest voter turnout was recorded among [...] The proportion of people who want to make it more difficult for refugees and asylum seekers to obtain a residence permit increased by 11 percentage points in 2009 compared to the year before. About half the population thinks the access to residence permits should be further restricted. The present survey of attitudes towards immigrants and [...]  One of the special events during Høstfest in Minot, ND each year is the Scandinavian American Hall of Fame Banquet. On Tuesday Sept. 29 Karl Rove was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame along with three others – Representative Earl Pomeroy, Tom Netherton of the Lawrence Welk Show, and Allen Larson of Minot – [...]  When early immigrants from eastern Norway organized a reunion in 1913 in Fargo, N.D. to celebrate their common heritage, they gathered in the woods for a group photograph. Old men wearing suits, women wearing long black dresses and hats and squirmy children who are blurred in movement are frozen in a moment of time [...] |
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