February 24, 2013. This article ran in the Kansas City Star, the Denver Post, the Bradenton (Florida) Herald, the Anchorage Daily News, and other local papers around the country.

States Lead the Way on Immigration Reform

By David Dyssegaard Kallick and Tanya Broder

While President Obama pushed Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform in his State of the Union address, many states are already paving the way toward a more sensible set of policies.

Nowhere is this clearer than… (read more)

July 12, 2012. Blogging from the White House, Jason Furman and Danielle Gray of the National Economic Council mention FPI’s June 2012 report on immigrant small business owners in their post Ten Ways Immigrants Help Build and Strengthen Our Economy.

America is a nation of immigrants. Our American journey and our success would simply not be possible without the generations of immigrants who have come to our shores from every corner of the globe. It is… (read more)

June 14, 2012. More than one in six small business owners in the United States is an immigrant, according to a new report from FPI’s Immigration Research Initiative. Immigrants – people born in another country – make up 18 percent of all small business owners in the United States. By contrast, immigrants are 13 percent of the population and 16 percent of the labor force, according to the American Community Survey from 2010. That’s a big change from 20 years… (read more)

June 30, 2010. Senior fellow David Dyssegaard Kallick testified at a public hearing held by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to hear ideas from members of the public. He testified about the relationship between immigration and economic growth and about the importance of federal support for state and local governments. Read the testimony.

April 15, 2010. Today’s New York Times featured an article by Julia Preston based on FPI data together with related materials  – data and interviews.

• Immigrants in Work Force: Study Belies Image. By Julia Preston.
• Immigrants and Growth graphic.
• After Their Arrival video and photo interviews with four men and women from across the world and the economic spectrum.

April 15, 2010. Immigrants are by no means all low-wage workers in the 25 largest metropolitan areas, as this new report shows. In many metro areas, there are more higher-skilled immigrants than there are lower-skilled. Surprisingly, these are not the metro areas with the most economic growth; rather, they are areas with low overall immigration, including Pittsburgh, Detroit, and St. Louis.

This is a companion report to Immigrants and the Economy, published November 2009.

November 30, 2009. This new report shows the robust immigrant contribution to GDP in the country’s 25 largest metropolitan areas. In the 25 metro areas combined, immigrants account for 20 percent of economic output and 20 percent of the population. The same basic relationship holds true, with slight variation, for each of the 25 areas, from metro Pittsburgh, where immigrants represent 3 percent of population and 4 percent of GDP, to metro Miami, where immigrants make up 37 percent of… (read more)

• December 15, 2010.  Guatemalans find a home, opportunity in area’s communities. By Tim Henderson, Journal News.

• November 19, 2010.  The Economic Impact of Long Island’s Immigrant Workers. By Aaron Rutkoff, Metropolis Blog (Wall Street Journal).
• November 19, 2010.  New York Study Refutes Immigrant Worker Perceptions. By Jon E. Dougherty, newsroomamerica.com.
• November 18, 2010.  Study Contradicts Popular Beliefs About LI Immigrants. Reported by Mike Xirinachs, CBS 880.
• November 18, 2010. 

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• July 17, 2011.  South Asian population continues growth in Lower Hudson Valley, and culture follows. By Hema Easley, Journal News.

• June 24, 2011.  Immigrant Entrepreneurs Powerful Component of Brooklyn Economy. Brooklyn Eagle.
• June 22, 2011.  Brooklyn tops boroughs in immigrant entrepreneurs. A Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce report said immigrants constitute 50% of all “incorporated employed individuals.” By Jermaine Taylor, Crain’s New York Business.
• May 20, 2011.  Immigrant Businesses

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