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PHIPPSBURG, Maine (AP)

Frustrated by red tape and visa limits on foreign

workers, tourism busi-nesses from Maine to Mis-souri are turning to Puerto Ricans who are fleeing a shattered economy and devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

Bob Smith, owner of Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, hired a half-dozen Puerto Ricans last summer for house-keeping, landscaping and kitchen work, providing relief to his overworked staff. This summer he is doubling the number, and he would like to hire even more.

Louis Morales, 50, of Comerio, Puerto Rico, is happy to be here because he makes double the salary he would back

home, where jobs are scarce.“A lot of people lost their houses, their

jobs, everything. It’s not the same now,” said Morales, a maintenance worker who worked at Sebasco last year and has

recruited more residents from Comerio to join him.

E m p l o y e r s large and small are seeking alter-native solutions as demand con-tinues to outstrip the annual allot-ment of 66,000 H-2B temporary visas, which are issued for workers holding down sea-sonal, nonagricul-tural jobs.

Critics fear that immigration poli-tics were playing a role in program changes starting

last summer. Compounding the uncer-tainty for businesses was a lottery system and background check delays on workers who come from dozens of countries from the Caribbean to Croatia.

On Friday, Homeland Security Secre-tary Kirstjen Nielsen announced 15,000 additional visas and acknowledged reforms were needed.

With Maine’s unemployment rate below 3 percent, there aren’t enough local people willing to take those sea-sonal jobs, Smith said.

“People say you should give these jobs to Americans. If you can find ‘em, then that’s great,” he said. “The only Ameri-cans we can find to do the work right now are in Puerto Rico.”

As U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans face no travel restrictions and can work as long as they want. They won’t solve the summer work shortage, but for some on the mainland it’s helping as employers frantically try to fill slots, with Memo-rial Day weekend signaling the unofficial start of the summer tourism season.

Many mainland businesses have been hiring people from the Caribbean terri-tory for years, and they sent recruiters after the hurricane.

More than 30,000 businesses closed and an estimated 130,000 to more than 200,000 left for the mainland after Maria struck as a Category 4 storm last Sep-tember, causing more than $100 billion in damage, the government said.

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In this May 25, 2018 photograph, Angel Gonzalez is seen working at the Sebasco Harbor resort in Phippsburg, Maine.

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NATIONAL: Problems with temporary visas benefit Puerto Ricans

STATE: Amazon, Starbucks pledge money to repeal Seattle head tax

HEALTH LITERACY: A Note From Your Survivorship Provider

POLITICS: Trump opposes any law that does not include ‘a real wall’

EDUCATION: Analysis shows how Bill Gates influences education policy

LATIN AMERICA: Cuba seeks to change its Constitution, marked by communism

POLITICS: Asian Americans turn against Trump due to immigration policy

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STATE

SEATTLE, Washington (AP)

Amazon, Starbucks, Vulcan and other companies have pledged a total of more than $350,000

toward an effort to repeal Seattle’s newly passed tax on large employers intended to combat homelessness.

Just days after the Seattle City Council approved the levy, the No Tax On Jobs campaign, a coalition of businesses, announced it would gather signatures to put a referendum on the November ballot to repeal it.

Amazon, Starbucks, Vulcan, Kroger and Albertsons each promised $25,000 to the effort last week, according to a report filed by the campaign. The Washing-ton Food Industry Association pledged $30,000.

Referendum backers will have to gather 17,632 signatures of registered Seattle voters by June 14 to get the measure on the ballot.

The so-called head tax will charge busi-nesses making at least $20 million in gross revenues about $275 per full-time

worker each year. The tax would begin in 2019 and raise about $48 million a year to build afford-able housing and provide emergency homeless ser-vices.

Opponents say the Seattle measure is a tax on jobs and questioned whether city officials are spending current resources effectively.

Worker and church groups and others praised the tax as a step toward building badly needed affordable housing in an affluent city where the income gap continues to widen and lower-income workers are being priced out.

The clash over who should pay to solve the city housing crisis that’s exacerbated by Seattle’s rapid economic growth fea-tured weeks of tense exchanges, raucous meetings and a threat by Amazon, the

city’s largest employer, to stop construc-tion planning on a 17-story building near its hometown headquarters.

Amazon has resumed planning the downtown building, but the company remains “apprehensive about the future created by the council’s hostile approach

and rhetoric toward larger businesses, which forces us to question our growth here,” said Drew Herdener, Amazon’s vice president for global cor-porate and operations communications.

Four councilmem-bers initially pitched an annual tax of $500 per full-time employee before a compromise proposal lowered the tax rate after they could not muster six votes needed to override a potential veto by Mayor Jenny Durkan.

The mayor signed the head tax on May 16,

saying “we must make urgent progress on our affordability and homelessness crisis.”

Seattle’s action came as cities around San Francisco consider business taxes to help offset issues created by the growth of tech companies.

Amazon, Starbucks pledge money to repeal Seattle head tax

In this May 14, 2018 file photo, members of the public look on at a Seattle City Council before the council voted to approve a tax on large businesses such as Amazon and Starbucks to fight

homelessness in Seattle, Washington.

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Health LiteracyThis Page is Sponsored by Tri-Cities Cancer Center

A Note From Your Survivorship Provider

By: Lisa C.S. Rootvik, ARNP, Survivorship Nurse Practitioner

The Survivorship Clinic at TCCC turned ONE in March and we are growing by leaps and

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But who exactly is considered a survivor? The American Cancer Society defines the term “survivor” as anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer and “survivorship” as the time in a survivor’s life from the moment of cancer diagnosis until the end of life. This definition includes people who have a history of cancer as well as those who currently have cancer. It includes people who are currently undergoing treatment and those who have completed treatment. It includes people whose cancer is considered curable and those whose cancer is considered chronic or incurable. Needless to

say, the definition of “survivor” is a very broad one and some people embrace it, while others never feel that the word “survivor” suits them. And that’s OK. I encourage everyone who has experienced cancer to use whatever words feel right to them.

At the Survivorship Clinic at TCCC, all survivors (using the broad definition above) are welcome. That’s right! If you’ve ever been diagnosed with cancer, you can be seen no matter what your cancer diagnosis, no matter what the stage of your cancer and no matter how long ago you were treated. If you have been, or are currently being, treated with curative intent my goal is to see you approximately 3-4 months after completing treatment and within one year from diagnosis. If you are, or have been, treated for chronic or incurable cancer, I believe the most ideal time to be seen is between treatments. If you’re interested in being seen but are not sure when would be the best time, feel free to contact the Survivorship Team and we can help you identify the ideal time.

During a Survivorship visit we review your past medical history, cancer diagnosis and cancer treatment. We review and identify side effects of treatment, discuss potential long-term complications from treatment and I educate you on how to take care of yourself going forward. The primary goal is for you to understand what you’ve been through and how to take care of yourself. The secondary goal is to make sure your entire health care team knows the same information. This includes providers who are not typically specialists in oncology (like your primary care). When you leave your visit, you will have in your hands your personalized Survivorship Care Plan which includes a concise summary of your cancer care and a Health Maintenance Schedule for you to follow with your health care team. You will also leave with many

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POLITICS

WASHINGTON (AP)

President Donald Trump says he opposes any immigration legis-lation that doesn’t include “a real

wall” along the Mexican border and “very strong border security,” and he’s ques-tioning the need for judges to determine immigration claims.

Moderate House Republicans are pushing a deal that could lead to citizen-ship for young “Dreamer” immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally. But Trump told “Fox & Friends” in an interview that aired Thursday that unless a bill “includes a wall, and I mean a wall, a real wall, and unless it includes very strong border secu-rity, there’ll be no approvals from me.”

Trump said the United States had “the worst immigration laws in the entire world by far” and said he wanted a com-prehensive deal that included all of his priorities. “I think it’s time to get the whole package,” he said.

Trump’s comments, taped Wednesday, came as immigration talks are under-way among House Republicans, with

moderates seeking a way for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants to stay permanently in the U.S. But con-servatives say they have no interest in giving what they call “amnesty” to people who came illegally.

Moderates trying to force votes on the issue gained their 21st GOP signature Wednesday. With just four more, they should be able to overcome leadership objections and have votes on immigra-tion bills in late June. House leaders plan a pivotal closed-door GOP immigration meeting on June 7.

Trump also took issue with the immi-gration court system, saying other coun-tries have “security people” who “stand

there and say you can’t come in” rather than judges who decide immigration claims.

“Whoever heard of a system where you put people through trials? ... We’re going to change the system,” Trump said.

The administra-tion is dealing with an enormous number of immigration cases along the U.S.-Mex-ico border, as a sharp increase in deportation arrests under Trump has pushed the backlog above 650,000 cases. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who oversees immigration courts, has sought major changes to the long-clogged courts.

The Justice Depart-ment recently announced that more prosecutors and judges will be assigned to help whittle away at the

caseload. And the administration has also introduced production quotas for immi-gration judges, raising concern among judges and attorneys that decisions may be unfairly rushed.

Trump opposes any law that does not include ‘a real wall’

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding the Marine One helicopter in the White House gardens on May 23, 2018.

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EDUCATION

SEATTLE, Washington (AP)

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates saw an opportunity with a new federal education law that

has widespread repercussions for Ameri-can classrooms.

His nonprofit Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given about $44 million to outside groups over the past two years to help shape new state education plans required under the 2015 law, according to an Associated Press analysis of its grants. The spending paid for research aligned with Gates’ interests, led to friendly media coverage and had a role in helping write one state’s new education system frame-work.

The grants illustrate how strategic and immersive the Microsoft founder can be in pursuit of his education reform agenda, quietly wielding national influence over how schools operate. Gates’ carefully curated web of influence is often invis-ible but allows his foundation to drive the conversation in support of its vision on how to reshape America’s struggling

school systems.Critics call it

meddling by a foundation with vast wealth and resources. The Gates Foundation says it’s simply helping states nav-igate a “tectonic” shift in responsi-bility for education — from the federal government to more local control.

“For 50 states with varying sets of capacities and capabilities and readiness, it was both an opportunity and also a concern that states and partners in those states needed support,” said Allan Golston, president of the Gates Founda-tion’s U.S. work.

The Gates Foundation spent about $44 million focused on the 2015 federal edu-cation law called the Every Student Suc-

ceeds Act. The law gives states flexibil-ity to create their own education system framework defining what a “good school” is — and in turn states get federal dollars for complying with their own rules.

The law requires academic standards, which means that the backbone for most state education systems is Common Core — a symbol for many critics during the

Obama years of federal over-reach in schools. Gates was influential in supporting the Common Core academic stan-dards, and now is doing the same as states sort out the best ways to implement their educa-tion policies under the 2015 law.

And that is how the world’s largest philanthropy works: funding everything from policy work on the ground to broader research and analysis, as well as national advocacy groups, com-munity leaders and media cov-erage both mainstream and niche.

Some Common Core and Gates critics said they weren’t

aware of the foundation’s interest in the education law or the millions of dollars it has continued to pour into supporting the standards. “They’re doing it in a quiet way because they don’t want the general public to know they’re still meddling in education policy,” said Carol Burris of the Network for Public Education.

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This Friday, April 27, 2018 photo shows the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foun-dation in Seattle, Washington.

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LATIN AMERICA

HAVANA, Cuba (AP)

When Cuba adopted its current constitution, the sugar-based economy was

being bolstered by aid from the Soviet Union, citizens were forbidden to run private businesses or sell homes and gays kept their sexual identity a tightly guarded secret.

Now a rewrite is on the way as the coun-try’s communist leaders try to adapt to the post-Soviet world in which hundreds of thousands of Cubans work for them-selves, American remittances and tourism keep the economy afloat and the daughter of Communist Party chief Raul Castro is campaigning for gay rights.

The country’s parliament is scheduled on Saturday to name the commission to draft a new constitution, consulting with the citizenry and eventually bringing it to a referendum.

Officials have made clear that the consti-tution will maintain a Communist Party-led system in which freedom of speech, the press and other rights are limited

by “the purposes of socialist society.”

But Castro and other leaders appar-ently hope to end the contradictions between the new, more open economy and a legal system that calls for tight state control over all aspects of the economy and society.

The current ban on dual citizenship col-lides with the govern-ment’s effort to reach out to exiles. The defi-nition of marriage as between a man and a woman runs up against Cuba’s growing gay rights move-ment. Many small businesses employ workers even though the constitution now forbids “obtaining income that comes from exploiting the work of others.”

The current constitution allows worker cooperatives, but only in the farm sector,

and officials have allowed other types of cooperative but placed sharp limits on their growth and operations, keeping them as a marginal economic player.

The government, too, is likely to see changes. Castro, who turned over the presidency last month to Miguel Diaz-Canel, has proposed limiting presidents

to two five-year terms and impos-ing an age limit — a dramatic shift following a nearly 60-year run of leadership by Castro and his late brother Fidel, who both ruled into their 80s.

“Cuba needs to change its con-stitution because our society has been radically transformed in recent years,” said political sci-entist Lenier Gonzalez, one of the directors of Cuba Possible, a think-tank aimed at promoting reform with the limits laid out by Cuban law and its single-party system. He noted the society has become more international, forms of property ownership have diver-sified and new social movements have emerged that now exist on

the margins of the law.He also said the revamp could help

build the legitimacy of Diaz-Canel, 58, and other members of the new guard who are finally replacing the men enshrined as national heroes of the 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro.

Cuba seeks to change its Constitution, marked by communism

In this May 1, 2018 file photo, Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel waves a Cuban flag next to former President Raul Castro as they watch the annual May Day parade file

through Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba.

POLITICS

(AP)

Members of the country’s fastest growing minority are running for federal office,

dozens of them as Democratic candidates deliberately playing up their Asian roots against a president they say demonizes the immigrants that make America great.

The candidates include former refugees from Vietnam and children of immigrants from South Korea and India. They live in places where Asian Pacific Americans make up a large chunk of the electorate and in places where they do not. Their chances of winning vary.

But the candidates’ unabashed celebra-tion of their foreign ties is notable for a group of people who have had to prove their “American-ness,” no matter how long their families have been in the country.

“I think partly it is a reaction to the current administration which has in its policies and statements sent out a very xenophobic message,” says Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., who is campaigning for a third

term in the House.“It’s also a recognition that what

makes America great is immigration and the American dream; it’s what people all over the world come to seek,” he said.

Christine Chen, executive director of the nonpartisan Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote, or APIA-Vote, says 2018 could be a watershed year for civic participation.

Asians, who make up 6 percent of the population, have traditionally lagged in voting due to language and cultural barriers and minimal out-reach from political parties, she says.

In the 2016 presidential election, for example, about 49 percent of eligible Asian voters cast ballots. That was less than the 65 percent for whites and 60 percent for blacks but slightly higher than the 48 percent figure for Latinos.

It’s hard to say definitively how many Asian Pacific Americans are running for Congress, although The Associated Press identified at least 80 candidates of both

parties. More than a dozen candidates are Republicans, and the rest are Democrats, including incumbents.

There are currently 18 Asian Americans or Pacific Islanders in Congress; three are in the Senate.

Among the candidates are nearly three dozen Asian Pacific Americans seeking to overturn Republican seats in the U.S. House as part of a broader Democratic surge to take control of the chamber. Some of them

have already been eliminated, but others have advanced.

A National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman, Jesse Hunt, said that the GOP also has compelling and diverse candidates. Republican Young Kim, for example, is a Korean-American who is on the June 5 California primary ballot.

“When my family came to this country, we came legally,” she says in a 30-second campaign ad. “And not because we wanted handouts, but because we wanted the opportunity America provided to succeed on our own.”

For former Groupon executive Suneel Gupta, a Democrat, it is precisely because of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies that he’s running for an open seat outside Detroit, Michigan.

“It is literally the moment that I realized my daughter’s first president is going to be Donald Trump, and knowing that when he wants to ‘Make America Great Again,’ he wants a few less people that look like us around,” Gupta said.

Asian Americans turn against Trump due to immigration policies

In this Thursday, May 3, 2018, photo, U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-California, poses for a picture in the Venice community of Los

Angeles, California.