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Economic thinking about immigration is often confused, losing sight of what really are economic benefits, how to measure them and how markets work. Paul Wiseman’s recent…
Lena Groeger, a journalist at ProPublica, provided an example of the use of ‘weasel words’ and biased analysis to convey the false impression that immigration is…
Only 1 in 4 Americans feel confident about President Obama’s plan for the economy, according to a new CNBC All-America Economic poll. That number is down…
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has issued a new report extolling the economic benefits of illegal immigration. It asserts that, “Unauthorized immigrants are good for state…
Quick question – what publication wrote this yesterday: “[T]he Senate bill and House principles offer no protection for the wages and employment status of existing workers…
NBC-Latino highlights the efforts of Adriana Kugler, a Colombian-American who until recently was chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, to provide a justification for…
A new effort is under way to justify an expansion of immigrant admissions as necessary to stimulate new U.S. economic growth. The high U.S. unemployment –…
Earlier today I came across a blog about immigration written by an economist, and knowing the typical economist’s position on immigration my first reaction was, “here…