Posted by Steven Hubbard | Sep 13, 2024 | Economics, Employment and Wages, Immigration 101 Immigrant entrepreneurs continue to shape our economy and play a critical role in the success and innovation ...
Immigrant Workers Help Florida Thrive. Anti-Immigrant Policies Threaten That
By Micaela McConnell | Immigration Impact In 2022, more than one in five Florida residents were immigrants. In that same year, immigrants in Florida were over 14% more likely than their U.S.-born nei...
USCIS Re-Issues Temporary Rule to Extend Work Permits for 800,000 Immigrant Workers
Editorial credit: ezellhphotography / Shutterstock.com By Adriel Orozco | Immigration Impact Thousands of immigrant workers with pending work permit renewals, and their employers, breathed a sigh of r...
Immigrant Workers Save Aging Economies but Face Financial Struggles in their Own Senior Years
By Leafia Zi Ye | The Conversation Immigrants support the economy of aging societies in many ways. They pay into social pension programs, which finance the lives of retirees. Many of them work in the...
ICYMI — NEW REPORT: “Asylum-seekers Have Pumped Millions into Long Island’s Economy”
By America’s Voice | January 10, 2024 New York, NY — New research highlighted in Newsday found that migrants and asylum seekers are “pumping millions” into Long Island’s economy. The...
The Economic Benefits of Work Permits
Editorial credit: Mircea Moira / Shutterstock.com By Maribel Hastings The Spanish-language media coverage of the refugee crisis in New York reveals a common denominator among immigrants: they want to ...
Fortune 500 Companies with Immigrant Roots Generated More Money Than the GDP of Most Western Nations
Editorial credit: Primakov / Shutterstock.com By Steven Hubbard | Aug 29, 2023 When Fortune released this year’s Fortune 500 list—the magazine’s iconic ranking of the year’s top-grossing Am...
Department of Labor (DOL) Top Jobs for Workers
By: Linda Nwoke The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is the country’s federal agency in charge of protecting and promoting the welfare of job seekers, workers, and retired workers. The agency pr...
On International Workers’ Day, Unions and Worker Justice Groups Call for Passage of New York For All Act
Hundreds of workers march to Foley Square in New York City to demand stronger worker protections and a full pathway to citizenship for immigrants on May 1, 2022. (Shutterstock) NEW YORK—Unions and w...
NYS Department of Labor Finalizes Farm Worker Overtime Regulations
The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) on Wednesday, February 23 announced the adoption of the final farm labor overtime regulations, codifying Commissioner Roberta Reardon’s order that acc...