Monthly Archives: July 2014

Influx of South Americans Drives Miami’s Reinvention

July 19, 2014. A New York Times story about Miami's economic growth is grounded in data from the Fiscal Policy Institute about immigrant business owners. Of immigrants in the Miami metro area, the article says: Their relative wealth has allowed them to ramp up businesses like import-export companies and banks, and to open restaurants that dish out arepas from Venezuela, coxinhas from Brazil and alfajores from Argentina. Partly as a result of that influx, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale region eclipsed Los Angeles in 2012 as the [...]

2015-01-26T11:45:42-05:00July 19th, 2014|FPI in the News|
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Hundreds of thousands of low-income families would benefit from a New York minimum wage increase

July 17, 2014. David Neumark’s piece in the July 6 Wall Street Journal (“Who Really Gets the Minimum Wage?”) argues that because some low-wage earners are in high-income families, increasing the minimum wage isn’t a very effective way to reduce poverty. In particular, he cites research to the effect that “if we were to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 nationally, 18% of the benefits of the higher wages (holding employment fixed) would go to poor families [but] 29% would go to families with incomes [...]

2020-11-13T15:11:23-05:00July 17th, 2014|Blog, Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Social Policy|
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Iowa Gets $64 Million in Taxes from Immigrants in U.S. Illegally, Report Says

July 2, 2014. A Los Angeles Times article about a report by our colleagues at the Iowa Policy Project talks about the economic and tax contribution of immigrants to the state of Iowa. The Iowa report was developed with data that the Fiscal Policy Institute developed with the Economic Policy Institute, and the article also mentions the FPI report directly: About 120,000 immigrants live in Iowa, and nearly 75,000 are in the U.S. illegally, Fisher said. With Iowa's median age trending upward, immigrants help bolster Iowa's [...]

2014-09-06T12:30:49-04:00July 2nd, 2014|FPI in the News|
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