Yearly Archives: 2013

June 13, 2013. A Journal-News analysis of new Census data showed that Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam all saw a significant growth in the non-white share of the population, "some of the largest ethnic shifts in the Northeast." “The whole country is diversifying,” said David Kallick of the Manhattan-based Immigration Research Initiative. “The white population is growing older, and the younger population is much more multicultural and multi-ethnic than the older generation. That’s our future, ready or not.” Growth among Hispanics, African-Americans and Asians is pushing [...]

June 6, 2013. The Polish-language paper Super Express features a story about the Fiscal Policy Institute's report on immigration reform. Ameryki i jej mieszkańców, o naszej metropolii nie wspominając - mówi David Dyssegaard Kallick, dyrektor Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Initiative, niezależnego instytutu skupiającego się na różnych aspektach mających wpływ na rozwój gospodarczo-ekonomiczny Nowego Jorku. - Z naszych wyliczeń wynika, że Nowy Jork zyskałby znacznie na sile roboczej. Wiele osób przestałoby się bać i dzięki temu efektywniej pracowało. Ponadto nie zapominajmy, że reforma wyeliminowałaby szarą [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.)

May 15, 2013. A Daily News article shows students rallying in favor of the NYS DREAM Act, with a big donut to suggest the very low cost to individual taxpayers--about 87¢ for a typical taxpayer, according to an FPI analysis (which, incidentally, included a photo of a donut).  

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 [...]