As adults, second-generation immigrants are some of the strongest economic and fiscal contributors in the U.S. They contribute more in taxes than their parents and the rest of the native-born population. So while immigration's impact on the economy is nuanced in the short term, most economi...
“Without immigrants — both new asylum-seekers as well as our long-term immigrant contributors — we would not be able to do the work that we do," she said. "Every single thing that affects the American economy is driven by and will only be saved by accepting immi...
How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become agents of homeland development. The essays that follow focus on...
How Immigrants Impact their HomelandsMatiuta, CristinaJournal of Identity & Migration Studies
Millions of jobs that new immigrants have been filling in the United States appear to solve a riddle that has confounded economists for at least a year.
How mass deportations could devastate the U.S. economyPresident-elect Donald Trump plans to deport up to 11 million undocumented immigrants. But how much will it cost? Jeremy Robbins, executive director for the American Immigration Council, joins "America Decides" to look at the impact many say...
Yaakov Hagoel, Chairman of the World Zionist Organization (credit: Liran Levinovich) Ofer Petersburg: Yaakov, as of today, what are the plans of the World Zionist Organization to help tens of thousands of immigrants fulfill the Zionist idea and come to Israel?
In 1848, gold was discovered in California, which ironically and unfortunately for Mexico was the same year they lost California to the United States. The resultingGold Rushsaw a huge boom in California's population, and their first real period of immigration. But where were these immigrants ...
Part of the justification for NAFTA was that it would reduce illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. The number of Mexican immigrants—of any legal status—living in the U.S. nearly doubled from 1980 to 1990.34Boosters argued that uniting the U.S. and Mexican markets would lead to gr...
Milton Friedman was the last of four children born to Jewish immigrants from Austria-Hungary. After getting his Bachelor of Arts degree at Rutgers and his Master's at the University of Chicago, he went to work forthe New Deal, a series of programs designed by US President Franklin D. Roose...