Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix and Julia Gelatt, MPI, Nov. 2024 "... In the new analysis detailed here, Migration Policy Institute (MPI) researchers provide first-ever projections of the U.S. working-age population by immigrant generation, building on the...
Stuart Anderson, Forbes, Oct. 15, 2024 "Three immigrants to America have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, illustrating continued contributions by immigrants to the United States. The three immigrants—one from Turkey and two from the United Kingdom—are...
Daniel Costa, Josh Bivens, Ben Zipperer, and Monique Morrissey • October 4, 2024 "Immigration has been a source of strength for the U.S. economy and has great potential to boost it even more, but the current U.S. immigration policy regime squanders...
Kevin Appleby, CMS, Sept. 2, 2024 "As US citizens and residents celebrate Labor Day, it is important to recognize the contributions immigrants—both legal and undocumented—make to the national economy. Legal immigrants work in a variety of occupations...
Valerie Lacarte, Ph.D., Aug. 2024 "The charge that immigrants are taking jobs from U.S.-born Black workers has made its way from conspiracy circles to the broader public conversation this election season. Several economists have refuted this : they say that...
Paul Krugman, New York Times, Mar. 19, 2024 "[There is] growing evidence that immigration is helping the U.S. economy — indeed, that it may be a major reason for our surprising economic success. ... But are immigrants taking jobs away from native-born...
AIC, Sept. 20, 2023 "Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, our Policy Director, testified before Congress to explain the positive economic contributions of immigrants in the U.S. and the ongoing challenge that the U.S. faces addressing the underfunded and outdated humanitarian...
Stuart Anderson, Forbes, Aug. 23, 2023 "The U.S. labor force will shrink, and America risks stagnation and declining living standards without immigrants, according to new research . Immigrants can boost the U.S. working-age population and offset America’s...
Michael Clemens, Aug. 3, 2023 "Even before Donald Trump arrived on the scene, the notion that we have to stop or substantially scale back immigration to America—a country of immigrants— because immigrants today simply do not assimilate like those...
Senate Joint Economic Committee, Dec. 14, 2022 "As the United States continues its recovery from the pandemic recession, immigrant workers are essential to the continued growth of the labor force and overall productivity. In order to continue adding jobs...
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Time Magazine, June 1, 2022 "Using millions of records of immigrant families from 1880 to 1940 and then again from 1980 to today, we find that the in past and still today children of immigrants surpass their parents and move...
Jeff Brumley, May 31, 2022 "Trump-era refugee and asylum policies continue to rob the U.S. economy of $9.1 billion annually and deny all levels of American government more than $2 billion per year, according to new academic research. The study by economist...
Stuart Anderson, Forbes, Feb. 3, 2022 "The number of new foreign-born workers in the United States declined because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but U.S. workers were not better off, according to new research . That refutes a long-held anti-immigration argument...
Center for American Progress, June 14, 2021 "Putting undocumented immigrants on a pathway to citizenship would increase U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by up to $1.7 trillion over the next decade, raise wages for all Americans, and create hundreds of thousands...
The Perryman Group, April 2019 "The current slowdown at the US-Mexico border is causing substantial economic harms. Trade volume has grown substantially, more than doubling over the past 20 years and up 55% between 2010 and 2018. During 2018, total trade...