Monthly Archives: December 2013

December 31, 2013. Northern Voices Online considers the prospects for immigration reform, focusing on the economic benefits that political action would bring, focusing on the immigrant role in small business ownership. The Fiscal Policy Institute Businesses mentioned in a June 2012 study that immigrant owned businesses employ nearly five million Americans in 2010 and generated an estimated $776 billion in revenue.

December 30, 2013. The Latino Post reviews reports about the economic impacts of immigrants on the U.S. economy, including one by the Fiscal Policy Institute. Research proves that immigration and economic progress go hand in hand. Contrary to fears that immigrants will take American jobs and make unemployment even worse, studies show that mending our broken U.S. immigration system would actually help end America's job crisis.... According to a 2012 study from the Fiscal Policy Institute, immigrant-owned small businesses employed nearly five million Americans in 2010 and [...]

December 26, 2013. An opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun draws extensively from the Fiscal Policy Institute's research on small business ownership, and describing city efforts to make it clear that immigrants are welcome. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Baltimore is "open for business, particularly in the area of Latino immigrants. We've actively recruited Latino immigrants to Baltimore, and when they come here, they're thriving. Many have opened businesses, employed individuals. ... I think it's a win-win."