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News January 21, 2025

Yahoo Finance: Trump immigration policies may ‘reduce GDP growth’ by 0.5%

"Immigrants have a relatively large footprint in the agricultural industry, for example, so I would absolutely expect a reduction in immigration to result in h…
News January 11, 2025

CNBC: Trump’s plan for mass deportation could have a big effect on prices

“Unauthorized immigrants are key parts of the workforce, especially in agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and the service sector. So those areas of the …
News December 9, 2024

CNBC: Trump’s mass deportation plan could threaten workforces in industries from agriculture to health care

“In a recent Brookings Institution study, researchers weighed the potential effects on the labor market and U.S. gross domestic product in 2025 in high- and lo…
News December 3, 2024

Yahoo Finance: US labor market braces for disruption as Trump vows mass deportations

“'The reason that mass deportations are disruptive is not simply because our economy relies on this labor; it's the abruptness of it,' said Wendy Edelberg, a d…
News November 28, 2024

The Wall Street Journal: What Trump’s immigration plans mean for America’s job growth

“Researchers at Brookings modeled a 'high' and a ‘low' scenario for net migration under Trump in 2025, ranging from a net gain of 1.22 million people to a net …
News November 18, 2024

CNN: Grocery prices are high. Trump’s mass deportations could make matters worse

“Any reduction in food demand resulting from evictions would be dwarfed by the loss of workers, noted Chloe East, an economics professor at the University of C…
News August 27, 2024

The Washington Post: Two pro-growth policies for Harris: Immigration and trade

“With an aging population, the necessity for legal immigration to prevent economic contraction has become more urgent. And there is little dispute that immigra…
News August 13, 2024

Yahoo Finance: What Trump’s immigration stance signals to US labor market

“The immigration surge should fundamentally change how we interpret the employment report. These are very significant increases in labor supply that we’ve seen…
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