Monthly Archives: March 2013

March 11, 2013. A Legislative Gazette article about the New York State DREAM Act as it advances in the legislature. A recent report by the Fiscal Policy Institute found that passing the legislation will reap a large economic benefit to the state as college graduates typically earn an additional $25,000 a year, which, in return, means $3,900 more per year, per student, in state and local taxes. An analysis by the Fiscal Policy Institute also concluded that the DREAM legislation would increase the cost of [...]

March 11, 2013. El Diario reports on a demonstration urging New York State legislators and governor to make the NYS DREAM Act a priority. Según un reporte del Instituto de Política Fiscal, de aprobarse esta ley, unos 5,500 estudiantes indocumentados que son elegibles, podrán tener acceso al Programa de Asistencia Educativa, que es financiado por el Estado.

March 10, 2013. A report in El Diario about activism around the NYS DREAM Act. Según un reporte del Instituto de Política Fiscal, de aprobarse esta ley, unos 5,500 estudiantes indocumentados que sean elegibles, podrán tener acceso al Programa de Asistencia Educativa, que es financiado por el Estado. Javier Valdés, de Se Hace Camino Nueva York, organización que ha liderado la lucha a favor del Dream Act estatal, dijo que es de vital importancia que el Senado Estatal incluya fondos para el Dream Act en el [...]

March 7, 2013. Highbrow Magazine reviews why Americans should care about comprehensive immigration reform. A 2012 study by the Fiscal Policy Institute, “found that there were 900,000 immigrants among small-business owners in the United States, about 18 percent of the total, ” a higher percentage than the total immigrant share of the population, which is 13 percent. Hamilton Place Strategies, a Washington research group, argued in a recent paper that low-skilled immigrant workers in agriculture also boost the economy by increasing work for Americans in [...]

March 4, 2013. The Legislative Gazette reports on the political prospects of the NYS DREAM legislation. "I very much hope that this is the year where, finally, we are able to pass the state DREAM Act to provide financial aid to our undocumented students to attend higher education," King said. "We understand that their success is the state's success, their success is the success of our state's economy." King's assertions were backed by a recent Fiscal Policy Institute study which found that a student who [...]