Archive for the ‘economy’ Category
What could help strengthen the economy AND lower the deficit? Guess.
Posted: June 30, 2010 at 4:08 pm By Rich Stolz$465,983,411.47 Where did this number come from? Today, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (i.e. the fiscal commission)held an important public hearing in its effort to gather testimony on ideas and proposals that could be used to shrink the federal deficit. It was live-streamed at this web site: http://www.whitehouse.gov/live. As of 9:00 this [...]
We love taxes: Our trip to the Capitol on Tax Day
Posted: April 15, 2010 at 5:41 pm By Rachel LaBruyereYesterday and today, we’ve been asking you to stand up for immigration reform by sending a blank tax form to Congress. Each tax form represents the money that could be added to our ailing economy if immigration reform were passed. Today, my colleagues and I carried boxes and boxes of blank tax forms (5,681 total) [...]
New Study Confirms Positive Impact of Immigration on Wages of Native-Born Workers
Posted: February 9, 2010 at 11:17 am By Walter EwingOriginally posted at Immigration Impact. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a new study last week, Immigration and Wages, which confirms what many other economists have found: “that immigration has a small but positive impact on the wages of native-born workers overall.” The report, by economist Heidi Shierholz, finds that the “effect of immigration from 1994 [...]
Immigration Reform is Necessary for America’s Economic Recovery
Posted: February 2, 2010 at 11:35 am By adminBy Robert Creamer, political organizer, strategist and author. Originally published at the Huffington Post. In his State of the Union speech, President Obama committed his Administration to pass comprehensive immigration reform. There are those who claim that this year immigration reform is a diversion from the priority task of fixing the economy — and also [...]
Immigration Reform would bring in $1.5 trillion over 10 years
Posted: January 7, 2010 at 11:41 am By Rachel LaBruyereOriginally posted at Standing FIRM. Many of the naysayers and immigration reform pessimists point to the current economic crisis as the nail in the coffin for any reform effort. With unemployment at a record high, there is a knee-jerk reaction to the idea of legalizing the millions of workers currently toiling in the shadows of [...]
WATCH: Secretary Hilda Solis and Secretary Gary Locke talk immigration
Posted: December 16, 2009 at 12:54 pm By Rachel LaBruyereToday, the day after Representative Gutierrez and 91 total cosponsors introduced the CIR ASAP immigration reform bill, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke are taking part in a discussion of their own perspectives on the immigration debate. You can watch the live-stream from the Center for American Progress above. From the Center [...]
Rep. Jared Polis: “Immigration and economic growth go hand-in-hand”
Posted: December 9, 2009 at 4:22 pm By Rachel LaBruyereHere is a great video of Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) discussing immigration and the economy on the floor of the House of Representatives today.
Studies Show Latinos Climb Socio-Economic Ladder of Success
Posted: December 8, 2009 at 11:13 am By Walter EwingOriginally posted at the Immigration Impact blog. As a front-page story in today’s Washington Post reminds us: “Not since the last great wave of immigration to the United States around 1900 has the country’s economic future been so closely entwined with the generational progress of an immigrant group.” The story highlights the degree to which [...]
Immigrants Pull Their Own Weight
Posted: December 3, 2009 at 11:36 am By Wendy SefsafOriginally posted at Immigration Impact. This week, the New York-based, non-partisan Fiscal Policy Institute released its long-awaited report, Immigrants and the Economy: Contribution of Immigrant Workers to the Country’s 25 Largest Metropolitan Areas. The report studies the 25 largest metro areas (by population) which produce nearly one half of the total gross domestic product of [...]
Post Postville, Immigrants Still Vital to Iowa’s Economy
Posted: December 1, 2009 at 12:46 pm By Seth HoyOriginally posted at Immigration Impact. Postville, Iowa—home to one of the largest immigration raids in U.S. history—made headlines again this month when Sholom Rubashkin, owner of Agriprocessors Inc., was convicted of “all but five of the 91 business fraud charges listed in a 163-count indictment.” Although the 72 immigration charges were dropped (since they would [...]
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