Colorado, District 6

Colorado, District 6

Coalition Letter Urges Vote Against Border Bill That Dismantles Asylum and Harms Asylum Seekers and Border Communities

Coalition Letter Urges Vote Against Border Bill That Dismantles Asylum and Harms Asylum Seekers and Border Communities

The American Immigration Council joined a coalition of 129 organizations calling for members of the House of Representatives to vote against an anti-immigrant border bill that would dismantle the U.S. asylum system. Read More

TERANGA Special Recipe

TERANGA Special Recipe

We at New American Economy were so excited to have Nafy Flatley joining us Sunday, June 28, for a very special and exclusive demo on our Instagram Live! Nafy is the founder of Teranga, a food and beverage company inspired by baobob and hospitality. Nafy is bringing Senegalese cuisine from… Read More

New Americans in Contra Costa County

New Americans in Contra Costa County

Read the Brief: New Americans in Contra Costa County Download Now New research from New American Economy shows that immigrant households in Contra Costa County, CA earned nearly $13.4 billion and paid over $3.9 billion in taxes in 2017. The report, … Read More

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Opinion: Rescinding the Texas Dream Act would hurt the state’s economy

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Opinion: Rescinding the Texas Dream Act would hurt the state’s economy

When I first spoke with a mentor at Texas Tech University’s Honors College in 2011, I was a Fort Worth high school senior ranked at the top of my class. But because I was an undocumented immigrant, I didn’t know if I’d be able to go to college. He told… Read More

Immigrant to Denver Founds Dragon Boat Festival that Attracts 120,000 Attendees Annually

Immigrant to Denver Founds Dragon Boat Festival that Attracts 120,000 Attendees Annually

When Taiwanese Chinese immigrant Ding-Wen Hsu followed her engineer husband from Iowa to Denver after he received a job offer as a hydrologist, she admired the abundant Colorado sunshine and the beautiful Rocky Mountain landscape. But it was the welcoming attitude of Denverites that inspired her to stay for… Read More

Alaskan Leads Effort to Get Military the Skills it Needs: Immigrants

Alaskan Leads Effort to Get Military the Skills it Needs: Immigrants

Immigrants who enlist in the military have high retention rates and bring language and medical skills considered vital to the nation’s success. So why do they make up less than 5 percent of the U.S. Armed Forces when they account… Read More

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Investor Ideas: “Demand for Bilingual Workers More than Doubled in 5 years, New Report Shows.”

Today, New American Economy (NAE) released a report on the growing demand for bilingual talent in major industries in the United States. The research looks at online job posting data acquired by Burning Glass Technologies, a leading labor market analytics firm that searches 40,000 job boards daily. The report shows… Read More

Robotics Expert Is Recruited to the U.S., but Visa Prohibits His Wife From Working

Robotics Expert Is Recruited to the U.S., but Visa Prohibits His Wife From Working

Despite being on track to become a judge in her native England, attorney Michelle Garrod decided to forego her own professional advancement to support her husband, Michael, when he was recruited to be the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for BlackDog Robotics, a division of the American company NPC… Read More

Immigrants Revitalize an Historically Dangerous Neighborhood in Pennsylvania’s Capital

Immigrants Revitalize an Historically Dangerous Neighborhood in Pennsylvania’s Capital

For two decades, Maria Alejandra Hernandez and her family have attended St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, because it provides the only weekly mass in Spanish. The towering brick cathedral is situated in the historically dangerous Allison Hill, but as immigrants have steadily flocked to… Read More

When a Typo Can Derail a Green Card Application, Reform is Long Overdue

When a Typo Can Derail a Green Card Application, Reform is Long Overdue

When Darrell Fun was serving in the Air Force JAG Corps in Korea, his fellow airmen would come to the lawyer for advice about marrying people they’d met while serving overseas. At the time, Fun says, “high-school-educated kids could do the paperwork themselves for their own marriage.” But times have… Read More

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