Costs of Immigration

“The share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of education and their resulting low incomes — not their legal status or an unwillingness to work. . ."

- Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research at CIS

Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Social Security

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Court Strikes Down Policy that Restricts Visas for 75 Countries on Welfare-Use Grounds

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Welfare

USCIS Issues New Guidance on Public Charge Inadmissibility Determinations

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Welfare, Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Working-Age, but Not Working, 1960 to 2026

Documenting the decades-long increase in the share of the U.S.-born not in the labor force and its implications for immigration policy

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

DHS Rescinds Biden’s Public Charge Rule

Agency policy now allows officers to consider a broader range of an alien’s public benefits usage

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Welfare

Expectant Mother in Birthright Citizenship Case Was Suing to Access More Welfare

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Welfare, Illegal Immigration, Birthright Citizenship

Abstract: Immigration and Rent: A PUMA-Based Spatial Analysis

Topics: Costs of Immigration

Has Immigration Enforcement Benefitted American Workers?

Evidence from the BLS household survey suggests the answer is ‘yes’

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Immigration Projections: Only as Good as the Assumptions Behind Them

Less than meets the eye in Yale think tank’s productivity forecast

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Welfare Use by Non-Citizens Across States in the U.S.

Topics: Welfare

The Work Crisis and the Work Still to Be Done

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration