Rhode Island cut its Southeast Asian and Portuguese interpreters, then spent years fixing it. Language access is cheap compared with what happens without it.
Posts with tag.: Language Rights
The Welsh Language Measure gave Welsh official status and put public bodies under a duty to provide services in it, creating steady demand and an unexpected quality problem.
The Assembly Government is expanding its Welsh translation unit and upgrading posts while the rest of the public sector shrinks, drawing fire from taxpayer campaigners.
Ontario had one accredited Arabic court interpreter, so the Crown asked to sever a murder trial. A tougher accreditation test shrank the workforce instead of improving it.
Around 100 protesters gathered near Ukraine's parliament against a language law expanding Russian, arguing bilingualism in law means Ukrainian retreat in practice.
Quebec is replacing the struck-down Bill 104 with a points-based test that asks parents to prove their child's English schooling would be an authentic education.