In Opposition Of The New York State ‘DREAM Act’

May 31, 2013. Rebecka Schumann, in the "Fighting Words" section of International Business Times, argues that we can't afford the NYS DREAM Act, but in the process assumes a cost that is 365 times higher than the reality. According to a recent Fiscal Policy Institute study, if the act is put into law, it would cost New York residents “less than 87 cents a day” -- an estimated $17 million a year financed through state income taxes -- in order to fund illegal residents’ education, [...]

2013-07-09T15:05:09-04:00May 31st, 2013|FPI in the News|

Guest Opinion: Immigration reform will boost state

May 31, 2013. The California state controller's op-ed on why immigration reform matters, citing some research of the Fiscal Policy Institute, appears on the Calaveras Enterprise web site. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office determined that comprehensive reform would increase both investment and the productivity of new workers brought to our labor force. Overall GDP would increase between 0.8 and 1.3 percent as early as 2016. Given California’s population and economic mix, we are likely to experience growth at a rate higher than the nation. Assuming [...]

2013-07-09T15:03:03-04:00May 31st, 2013|FPI in the News|

Next NYC Mayor facing $7.8B fiscal cliff from unions who haven’t received a raise in years

May 27, 2013. Fiscal experts say the next New York City mayor faces a fiscal cliff of $7.8B. James Parrott, deputy director and chief economist, said "“Disaster looms if we continue down the road we’re going.” Read the story. James Parrott added the following comment on the New York Daily News web site after the article was published: When I said, “Disaster looms if we continue down the road we’re going,” I was referring to the fact that the current administration had failed to seriously [...]

2013-06-04T14:07:50-04:00May 27th, 2013|FPI in the News|

Inmigrantes altamente calificados son valiosos en Estados Unidos

May 22, 2013. Venezuela Al Día reports on highly skilled immigrants to the United States. “Los Estados Unidos es el destino más deseado para inmigrantes de todo el mundo. Ésta siempre ha sido una oportunidad de fortalecer y potenciar la economía”, indica Brito. Un estudio de junio de 2012 publicado por el Fiscal Policy Institute reconoce el espíritu empresarial de los inmigrantes en los Estados  Unidos: “18% de todos los propietarios de negocios pequeños es inmigrante. Esto es especialmente impresionante considerando que los inmigrantes componen [...]

2013-06-11T14:04:05-04:00May 22nd, 2013|FPI in the News|

Detengan el estancamiento del Dream Act

May 22, 2013. Editorial from El Diario in favor of passing the New York State DREAM Act. (In Spanish.) De acuerdo al Instituto de Política Fiscal y el centro de Política de inmigración, las proyecciones indican que un grupo de estudiantes con mejor educación, graduados y efectivamente activos en la fuerza laboral, contribuirían mejor a la salud económica de la ciudad, en unos 5 a 6 de estos graduarse. O sea, el Dream Act estatal es una inversión, no una perdida.

2013-06-11T13:21:40-04:00May 22nd, 2013|FPI in the News|

State Comptroller Issues Report on Costs of DREAM Act

May 20, 2013. The New York State comptroller issued a press release and report estimating the cost of the NYS DREAM Act. The results and arguments about a strong return on investment are very much in line with those previously arrived at by the Fiscal Policy Institute here and here. The comptroller finds "additional TAP costs would be less than $20 million, an increase of less than 2 percent." (The FPI study estimated the cost at $17 million.)

2013-06-11T13:33:50-04:00May 20th, 2013|FPI in the News|

Immigration Will Boost the California Economy

May 10, 2013. The state controller of California makes the case for embracing immigration reform, in the Mercury News of Silicon Valley.   The Fiscal Policy Institute estimates that immigrant-owned small businesses employed 4.7 million people in 2007, 500,000 of them in California. With sound immigration reform, we could see more people opening small businesses. According to a study by the Center for American Progress, extending legal status or citizenship to current residents can lead to an annual job increase between 121,000 and 203,000, depending [...]

2013-06-11T13:18:17-04:00May 10th, 2013|FPI in the News|

Data for Pre-Citizen Voting Debate in City Council

May 9, 2013. Should legal immigrants who are not yet citizens be permitted to vote in New York City elections? The NYC City Council will debate this question beginning on Thursday, May 9, in connection with Intro 410, which would allow pre-citizens to vote in New York City municipal elections. It wouldn’t be the first time noncitizens could vote in New York elections. School board elections, before they were abolished, were open to all parents of children in New York City schools, regardless of citizenship [...]

2013-05-09T18:36:37-04:00May 9th, 2013|Blog, Migration|

Conservatives Must Reject the “Poor Are Parasites” Narrative

May 7, 2013. The Blog of the Competitive Enterprise Institute opines that conservatives who are stuck in the "47 percent" frame of mind are way off base on immigration. Reacting to a new report of the Heritage Foundation about immigrants and the cost of services, the piece notes: Low-skilled immigrant workers allow Americans to engage in more productive endeavors. For example, the Fiscal Policy Institute found that immigrants operate 75 percent of New York City child care businesses. This allows American mothers to work and implies that [...]

2013-05-09T14:59:04-04:00May 7th, 2013|FPI in the News|

Barriers to Entry: The Increasing Challenges Faced by Young Adults in the NYC Labor Market

May 2, 2013. A new report from JobsFirstNYC and co-authored by James Parrott, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute, and Lazar Treschan, Director of Youth Policy, Community Service Society, takes an in-depth look at both the supply and demand dimensions of the job market faced by New York City’s 18- to 24-year-old young adult population. Barriers to Entry: The Increasing Challenges Faced by Young Adults in the New York City Labor Market looks at changes in the city's labor market over the past decade [...]

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