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News March 24, 2024

Bloomberg: Fed’s Powell ready to support job market, even if it means lingering inflation

“It’s 'about not wanting the unemployment rate to get momentum,’ said former Fed economist Wendy Edelberg, director of the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Pro…
News March 13, 2024

Axios: How immigration is driving U.S. job growth

"New analysis from the Brookings Institution puts some hard numbers on the relationship between the rise in immigration and the labor market — finding an influ…
News March 13, 2024

Reuters: US immigration fillip shifts economy’s trajectory

“In a paper released last week, Brookings economists Wendy Edelberg and Tara Watson reckoned the CBO revisions - which show 3.3 million net immigrants last yea…
News March 8, 2024

The New York Times: U.S. employers add 275,000 jobs in another strong month

"According to an analysis by the Brookings Institution, the influx has approximately doubled the number of jobs that the economy could add per month in 2024 wi…
News February 14, 2024

The Hill: Immigration cuts could dent US economy at crucial time, experts say

"‘The vast majority of population growth that we have in the U.S. right now is from immigration,’ Wendy Edelberg, director of The Hamilton Project and a senior…
News January 25, 2024

Marketplace: Cha-ching! Can you hear the economy growing?

"Wendy Edelberg of The Hamilton Project doesn’t want to jinx it, but it looks like the economy has made a ‘soft landing.’"
News January 17, 2024

WUSF: Charter schools continue to grow across the Tampa Bay area

"Sofoklis Goulas, an economics and education researcher with the Brookings Institution, said the COVID-19 pandemic impacted where families choose to send their…
News January 9, 2024

The 74 Million: Exclusive data: Thousands of schools at risk of closing due to enrollment loss

“In an October paper, Brookings researchers found that over a four-year period that includes the pandemic, about 12% of elementary schools and 9% of middle sch…
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