According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), undocumented immigrants contribute about $11.6 billion to the economy annually. A recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that immigration has an overall positive effect on long-run economic growth in the United States. The foreign born have accounted for more than half of the increase in the working-age population between 1994 and 2016. Read more
March 8, 2017
The Street: Trump’s Immigration Order Makes It Harder for Him to Deliver on Economic Promises
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