Posts Tagged ‘immigration and the economy’
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 [...]
Immigration Reform as Economic Stimulus
Posted: September 2, 2009 at 5:23 pm By Americas VoiceOriginally posted at America’s Voice: Immigration Policy Center just released a new report by Senior Researcher Walter Ewing this week, which injects “a healthy dose of economic realism” into the debate over how the government should handle the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country. According to Ewing, our current economic situation needs immigration reform [...]
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