Tracy Jan The Washington Post

Legal immigrants who use public benefits - such as Medicaid, food stamps or housing assistance - could have a tougher time obtaining a green card under a policy change announced Monday that is at the center of the Trump administration's effort to reduce immigration levels.

The coming influx of tens of thousands of highly paid tech workers could exacerbate inequality in the Washington region.

Housing Secretary Ben Carson accused Facebook of enabling illegal housing discrimination by providing tools that made it easy to exclude people based on race, gender, zip code, or religion.

Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said Thursday that the company would now open its bathrooms to everyone, regardless of whether a purchase has been made, following the arrest of two African-American men who had asked to use the bathroom at a downtown Philadelphia coffee shop.

Public outrage over the arrest of two African-American men at a downtown Starbucks sparked a corporate crisis that led the company to take the unprecedented step of announcing it would close more than 8,000 stores for an afternoon in May to train baristas on how to recognize their own racial biases.

President Donald Trump has managed to erect an " invisible wall " that makes it increasingly difficult for companies to hire skilled foreign workers, according to a new report from experts in immigration law, despite the president's call for a merit-based immigration system that prioritizes the admittance of people who are skilled and who want to w...

President Donald Trump proposed a budget Monday that hits the poorest Americans the hardest, slashing billions of dollars in food stamps, health insurance and federal housing subsidies while pushing legislation to institute broad work requirements for families receiving housing vouchers, expanding on moves by some states to require Medicaid and foo...

The nine women distinguished Vincent Cirrincione's behavior from Harvey Weinstein's, which included accusations of rape that the Hollywood titan has denied. None have made criminal allegations against Cirrincione or sought legal recourse.

Facebook is wrestling with the hardest questions it has ever faced as the de facto arbiter of speech for the third of the world's population that now logs on each month.

The one-time increase in H-2B visas - which would be available to workers taking temporary jobs in the seafood, tourism and other industries but not to farm laborers - is a seeming about-face from President Trump's "Hire American" rhetoric and follows heavy industry lobbying.

Infosys, a global tech outsourcing giant under fire from President Donald Trump for stealing American jobs, announced Tuesday that it plans to hire 10,000 new U.S. workers over the next two years.

The original plan was to attract foreign investment to blighted neighborhoods. But instead, the controversial EB-5 investor visa enabled affluent Chinese to park their cash in high-end real estate in Beverly Hills and Manhattan - benefiting developers such as Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Sudarshana Sengupta used to consider herself an immigrant success story. A scientist on the verge of launching a start-up, she thought she had checked all the right boxes on her way to achieving the American Dream. She works at a university lab, pays taxes and has begun the lengthy process of becoming a permanent resident.

If you were bright -- and gifted in science and engineering -- the H-1B visa was your ticket to the United States. But maybe not for long.

A month ago, technology companies were among the loudest critics of Trump's initial travel ban, which immediately imposed restrictions on visas for visitors from seven countries.

Legal immigrants who use public benefits - such as Medicaid, food stamps or housing assistance - could have a tougher time obtaining a green card under a policy change announced Monday that is at the center of the Trump administration's effort to reduce immigration levels.

The coming influx of tens of thousands of highly paid tech workers could exacerbate inequality in the Washington region.

Housing Secretary Ben Carson accused Facebook of enabling illegal housing discrimination by providing tools that made it easy to exclude people based on race, gender, zip code, or religion.

Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said Thursday that the company would now open its bathrooms to everyone, regardless of whether a purchase has been made, following the arrest of two African-American men who had asked to use the bathroom at a downtown Philadelphia coffee shop.

Public outrage over the arrest of two African-American men at a downtown Starbucks sparked a corporate crisis that led the company to take the unprecedented step of announcing it would close more than 8,000 stores for an afternoon in May to train baristas on how to recognize their own racial biases.

President Donald Trump has managed to erect an " invisible wall " that makes it increasingly difficult for companies to hire skilled foreign workers, according to a new report from experts in immigration law, despite the president's call for a merit-based immigration system that prioritizes the admittance of people who are skilled and who want to w...

President Donald Trump proposed a budget Monday that hits the poorest Americans the hardest, slashing billions of dollars in food stamps, health insurance and federal housing subsidies while pushing legislation to institute broad work requirements for families receiving housing vouchers, expanding on moves by some states to require Medicaid and foo...

The nine women distinguished Vincent Cirrincione's behavior from Harvey Weinstein's, which included accusations of rape that the Hollywood titan has denied. None have made criminal allegations against Cirrincione or sought legal recourse.

Facebook is wrestling with the hardest questions it has ever faced as the de facto arbiter of speech for the third of the world's population that now logs on each month.

The one-time increase in H-2B visas - which would be available to workers taking temporary jobs in the seafood, tourism and other industries but not to farm laborers - is a seeming about-face from President Trump's "Hire American" rhetoric and follows heavy industry lobbying.

Infosys, a global tech outsourcing giant under fire from President Donald Trump for stealing American jobs, announced Tuesday that it plans to hire 10,000 new U.S. workers over the next two years.

The original plan was to attract foreign investment to blighted neighborhoods. But instead, the controversial EB-5 investor visa enabled affluent Chinese to park their cash in high-end real estate in Beverly Hills and Manhattan - benefiting developers such as Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Sudarshana Sengupta used to consider herself an immigrant success story. A scientist on the verge of launching a start-up, she thought she had checked all the right boxes on her way to achieving the American Dream. She works at a university lab, pays taxes and has begun the lengthy process of becoming a permanent resident.

If you were bright -- and gifted in science and engineering -- the H-1B visa was your ticket to the United States. But maybe not for long.

A month ago, technology companies were among the loudest critics of Trump's initial travel ban, which immediately imposed restrictions on visas for visitors from seven countries.