Monthly Archives: February 2013

February 27, 2013. The Legislative Gazette with a good story about FPI's analysis of the NYS DREAM Legislation's strong return on investment, released in coordination with the annual Albany Day of the New York Immigration Coalition. The Fiscal Policy Institute released a financial assessment of the New York state DREAM Act at the New York Immigration Coalition's lobbying day in Albany on Wednesday. The controversial bill would allow undocumented students -- many of whom were brought to the United States illegally by their parents, but [...]

February 27, 2013. A tumbler post from Univision focuses on the very affordable price per taxpayer of the NYS DREAM Legislation. The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI), a non-partisan research organization, has issued a report looking at the costs and benefits of the state-level bill. And since we all know it’s easier to do math when it involves fried dough, they’ve broken out the costs in doughnut dollars:  

February 24, 2013. A Newsday article reports that the Long Island Association—the most influential business group in the area—has announced its support for comprehensive immigration reform. Immigrant advocates want to ensure workers are not exploited or paid lower wages and have eventual access to a path for citizenship. David Dyssegaard Kallick, immigration research director at the Fiscal Policy Institute in Manhattan, said efforts should first address the estimated 11 million to 12 million undocumented immigrants, while creating an orderly immigration system, without flooding business sectors with [...]

February 14, 2013. Inc. Magazine says that the data is mixed, but a minimum wage increase may not be as bad for business as you think. The story written by Jeremy Quittner is excerpted below. Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below [...]

February 6, 2013. The Financial Times is one of several media outlets to be interested in cities like Baltimore and Dayton that are trying to reverse population growth by creating an environment that feels welcoming to all, including immigrants. Here is the link. “To get Baltimore growing again, it makes sense to look at what made us grow in the first place: the strength of our immigrants,” says Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the Democratic mayor of Baltimore, who wants to attract 10,000 new families to Baltimore over [...]