Itemlive: ICE Rumors Send Chill Through North Shore
President Donald Trump’s high stakes effort to target millions of undocumented immigrants has frayed the nerves of many North Shore residents. “There’s tremendous fear, uncertainty and confusion over what is happening with the administration’s crackdown and it’s not just people from Muslim countries,” said Denzil Mohammed, a director at the… Read More
The Conversation: Want a stronger economy? Give immigrants a warm welcome
Immigrants have long been a scapegoat when economies are sputtering, jobs are being lost or security is a concern. President Donald Trump’s planned wall along the Mexican border, for example, is premised on the notion that immigrants are pouring across the border (they’re not), taking Americans’ jobs (they haven’t) and… Read More
Feedstuffs: Immigration enforcement executive orders causing fear
President Donald Trump campaigned on taking a strong stance against individuals who are undocumented and living in the U.S., and recent executive actions have taken his promises to a new level of injecting fear in the countryside as well as buckling down on those who provide false documents. This week,… Read More
Providence Business News: “Report: R.I. home to 104K immigrants”
A new report released this week shows that Rhode Island is home to nearly 140,000 immigrants, and that they are mostly of working age, and work in the manufacturing and software industries. That number grows to more than 200,000 when the Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area is included. Again, most of… Read More
Fond du Lac Reporter: “Farm briefs”
Milk production and cow numbers in the dairy state are creeping upward, according to the latest USDA, National Ag Statistics Service Milk Production report. Milk production in Wisconsin during January 2017 totaled 2.54 billion pounds, up 1 percent from the previous January. The average number of milk cows during January, at… Read More
Wisconsin Ag Connection: “WFBF Supports Immigration Reform Day of Action”
The state’s largest farm organization says it is in support of the New American Economy’s National Day of Action and immigration reform campaign. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation announced that the campaign, which kicked off this week with the launch of the Map of Impact that includes updated immigration statistics… Read More
WPRO: “Jeremy Robbins – study examines impact of immigrants on the U.S. economy”
Jeremy Robbins, Executive Director of “New American Economy”; issues a report examining the impact of immigrants on the U.S. economy. Read the full story from WPRO: “Jeremy Robbins – study examines impact of immigrants on the U.S. economy“… Read More
Philadelphia Magazine: “Here’s How Much Spending Power Immigrants Hold in Philly”
If last week’s national “Day Without Immigrants” boycott wasn’t enough to signal the impact of immigrants on the economy, a data map released on Tuesday details the impact of immigrants across all 50 states, in all 435 congressional districts, and in the country’s 55 largest metro areas. The New American Economy, a… Read More
Pittsburgh Business Times: “Data reveals economic impact of immigrants in Pittsburgh metro area”
Immigrants make up 3.4 percent of the Pittsburgh metro’s population, but their ranks include 4,409 entrepreneurs and they make up 6.9 percent of the local education services industry and 6.3 percent of the professional, scientific and technical services sector here. That’s part of the data released on Tuesday by political,… Read More
Technical.ly: “Cool data viz alert: Economic impact of immigrants in Philly”
In case Day Without Immigrants wasn’t enough of a reminder, immigrants are a significant part of this city’s economy. To put things in perspective, Philly’s Office of Immigrants Affairs partnered a national initiative from advocacy group New American Economy aimed at producing an interactive map with stats on immigrant population in every congressional district, taxes paid and… Read More
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