Monthly Archives: July 2013

July 15, 2013. An ABCNews-Univision story looks at the impact of immigration reform on black workers, citing work and commentary from the Fiscal Policy Institute. David Dyssegaard Kallick, a senior fellow at the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI), looked at the economic impact of immigrants in a 2010 report focused on Long Island, New York... Among the social challenges to African American men who did not go to college, immigration would come below a long list of other concerns, from high incarceration rates to racial discrimination in the [...]

July 14, 2013. New York Daily News cites the Report done by Taxation and Economic Policy and Fiscal Policy Institute regarding the possible tax contribution to the states if there is an immigration reform. A report released Wednesday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, DC, and the Fiscal Policy Institute in Manhattan estimates that legalizing undocumented immigrants, who currently pay $744 million in state and local taxes, would increase that figure by $224 million. “It’s reassuring to see that (reform ) [...]

July 10, 2013. A Newsday article covers the release of a great new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report about how legalizing undocumented immigrants would affect state and local tax revenues. The ITEP report builds on work ITEP did with the Fiscal Policy Institute around our report on how immigration reform would boost productivity. David Dyssegaard Kallick, immigration research director at the Fiscal Policy Institute, said there is no better alternative than for all those immigrants to become taxpayers. "As long [...]

July 10, 2013. NBC-Latino reports on a White House study about the benefits of immigration reform, citing FPI data. The report also points out that immigrants already in the U.S. make a case for immigration’s economic benefits: a 2007 study by the Fiscal Policy Institute found that immigrant-owned small businesses generated about $776 billion in receipts and employed about 4.7 million people.

July 10, 2013. A news article in Entrepreneur covers the release of a new report from the White House, which cites Fiscal Policy Institute data about small business owners. Immigrants are more likely to be entrepreneurs than U.S. natives: Immigrants and their children have founded Google, Disney, Procter & Gamble and 40 percent of America's 500 largest companies, the report says. Immigrants, typically motivated to improve their standing in life, are more than two times as likely to start businesses than those born in the [...]

July 10, 2013. The Executive Office of the President issued a new report on the economic benefits of immigration reform, including several references to Fiscal Policy Institute studies, among them: A study by the Fiscal Policy Institute found that in 2007, immigrant-owned small businesses generated a total of $776 billion in receipts and employed an estimated 4.7 million people.  

July 2, 2013. WNYC's Morning Edition featured a story about immigration reform, with an emphasis on how reform by itself will not prevent workers from being paid off the books. “My view would be that in conjunction with immigration reform you also need to have a stepping up of labor enforcement standards … to make sure people are not being paid off-the-books,” said David Kallick, a senior fellow at the Fiscal Policy Institute. Kallick says labor departments need to audit employers regularly to ensure they’re [...]

July 1, 2013. The Business Review interviews David Dyssegaard Kallick of FPI about the likely economic effects of immigration reform. To me, it is obvious that reform would be good for the economy, for the same reasons that having a broken immigration system is bad for the economy. If everyone living in the U.S. had legal status it would mean more people paying taxes, more people getting services, more people paying into, and covered by, social insurance programs.