Opinion: California’s Single-Payer Health Insurance Dream Remains a Fantasy

Despite an advancing bill, the odds against single-payer health insurance becoming law in California are long. The state simply can't afford the hundreds of billions of dollars it would cost each and ... Read More

Opinion: How anti-immigrant bigotry hugely misunderstands our economy

They’ve pushed fearmongering about immigrants as a threat to skew U.S. policy ... But it’s out of touch with the realities of another pre-election concern: the economy, to which noncitizens ... Read More

More immigration means gains for U.S. economy, CBO says

The Congressional Budget Office says immigrants will add $7 trillion to gross domestic product in the next decade and boost tax revenue too. Read More

Many Americans Say Immigrants Contribute to Economy but There's Worry Over Risks, AP-NORC Poll Finds

Saunders said it’s important to know the background of the immigrants coming to the U.S. and said legal immigration contributes to the economy ... and get free health care and take away from ... Read More

Poll: Many Americans Say Immigrants Contribute to Economy

Saunders said it's important to know the background of the immigrants coming to the U.S. and said legal immigration contributes to the economy ... here and get free health care and take away ... Read More

US Economy News Today: Consumers Think Next Six Months in the Economy Will Be Bumpy

where we'll explain what the day's news says about the state of the U.S. economy and how that's likely to affect your finances. Here we will compile data releases, economic reports, quotes from ... Read More

U.S. Job Numbers Show Immigration Opponents Wrong About The Economy

Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images) For more than a century, anti-immigrant activists have assured Americans that increased immigration would harm the economy ... Policy study. “U.S. real ... Read More

Immigration Is Powering the U.S. Economy

A piece of the economic puzzle fell into place when new immigration ... economy have grown over 3 percent in a year where almost every outside economist was forecasting a recession?’” The U.S ... Read More

Spain sees US-style economic boost from immigrant workers

Achieving her career ambitions in Spain has proved remarkably easy for Sara Hernandez, a systems architect from Venezuela who found her skills were in hot demand when she arrived in Madrid. Read More

Do immigrants and immigration help the economy?

Oftentimes, when immigrants move into an area, so do native workers, drawn by the promise of an invigorated economy ... died in," he says of his family. "But I think that's true for a large ... Read More

Many Americans say immigrants contribute to economy but there’s worry over risks, poll finds

Saunders said it’s important to know the background of the immigrants coming to the U.S. and said legal immigration contributes to the economy ... and get free health care and take away from ... Read More

Immigration Is Powering the U.S. Economy

The U.S. economy will need immigration in the long term too if it is to keep growing. Our aging population and declining birth rates mean a shrinking labor force. Moreover, with fewer young ... Read More