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Welcome to Dayton: How Immigrants are Helping to Grow Dayton’s Economy and Reverse Population Decline
Welcome Dayton is a community initiative that reflects our country’s core philosophy: people with diverse backgrounds, skills and experiences fuel our nation’s success. The City of Dayton launched Welcome Dayton in 2011 to promote immigrant integration by encouraging business and economic development; ensuring access to education, health, and government… Read More
Welcome to Dayton: How Immigrants are Helping to Grow Dayton’s Economy and Reverse Population Decline
Welcome Dayton is a community initiative that reflects our country’s core philosophy: people with diverse backgrounds, skills and experiences fuel our nation’s success. The City of Dayton launched Welcome Dayton in 2011 to promote immigrant integration by encouraging business and economic development; ensuring access to education, health, and government… Read More
Analysis: New face of Nashville dominated mayoral debate
Metro government reporter Joey Garrison breaks down Thursday night’s NashForward debate, which featured 14 young Nashvillians. Who won last night’s Nashforward televised mayoral debate? That’s always the big question. I thought long and hard for an answer. The truth is this: No candidate helped themselves enormously but no candidate… Read More
Iowa Republicans Appear to be Open to Immigration Reform
An Iowa presidential poll conducted back in April by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a group that advocates for immigration reform, shows that the actual views of Republican caucus goers on the hot-button issues may be different than you might expect. When likely caucus… Read More
Visas for Foreign Workers
To the Editor: Re “Workers Betrayed by Visa Loopholes” (editorial, June 15): For years, we, along with a broad coalition of advocates, have pushed for comprehensive immigration reform that would spur economic… Read More
Iowa Republicans call on candidates to embrace immigration reform
DES MOINES — Anti-immigration stances carry little weight with GOP caucusgoers, and opposing immigration reforms can be damaging in a general election, according to a new survey highlighted Tuesday by Iowa Republicans. The poll was produced by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a national bipartisan advocacy group for… Read More
Pro-immigration group touts poll of Iowa Caucus goers
Research released this past weekend indicates 77 percent of likely Iowa Caucus goers support creation of a new process that would grant U.S. citizenship to undocumented immigrants. John Stineman, a Republican political consultant, conducted a telephone conference call this morning to discuss the poll that was conducted in… Read More
Immigration reform key to a legal, reliable farm workforce
Immigration reform is a contentious, often emotional, topic for many Americans. But for U.S. agriculture, it’s mainly a labor issue. As the busy summer season gets underway, experts from Syngenta and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) weigh in on how to best address this issue that is top-of-mind among… Read More
Interactive Map Projects Potential Impact of Hispanic and Asian Voters in 2016 Elections
By 2016, 19.2 Million New Hispanic and Asian Voters Could Join the U.S. Electorate and Impact Election Results in Key States. By 2020, that Number Could Reach 25.6 Million. New York, NY —As 2016 candidates jockey for the minority vote, the New American Economy released… Read More
Are Republicans in Three Key 2016 States Softening on Immigration?
Most Republicans in the key early 2016 states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina support allowing undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. and earn citizenship or permanent legal status, newly released surveys by a GOP polling firm for a pro-immigration group has found. But the polls also underscored… Read More
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