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Time: Immigration is powering the U.S. economy
"In future years, the vitality of the U.S. population and economy will hinge on immigration policy decisions made now."
The Wall Street Journal: The jobs numbers aren’t adding up. Immigration helps explain why.
"'Lots and lots of people like me, every time they opened the employment report had in the back of their heads that anything above 100,000 is something out of …
The Current Podcast: What a strong economy can and can’t fix
“Across a number of dimensions, the economy is doing quite well ... If we look at which kinds of families are still dealing with a lot of financial anxiety, ev…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.’"
