Adding It Up: Accurately Gauging the Economic Impact of Immigration Reform
 
For Immediate Release

May 7, 2013

Washington D.C. - Today, the Immigration Policy Center releases Adding It Up: Accurately Gauging the Economic Impact of Immigration Reform by Raul Hinojosa Ojeda, Ph.D. and Sherman Robinson, Ph.D.

With immigration reform legislation now making its way through Congress, it is imperative that we estimate as accurately as possible the full range of potential economic costs and benefits associated with any particular bill. It is especially important to establish the proper criteria for a complete, robust, and accurate fiscal scoring of any bill by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). To that end, we should consider the growing consensus of the economic literature on the strongly positive benefits of immigration in general and of the various aspects of immigration reform in particular, as calculated using a variety of different methodologies. The CBO would be well-advised to keep this consensus literature in mind as it establishes the criteria it will use for scoring immigration reform legislation.

To view the fact sheet in its entirety see:

Adding It Up: Accurately Gauging the Economic Impact of Immigration Reform (IPC Fact Check, May 7, 2013)
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For more information, contact Wendy Feliz at wfeliz@immcouncil.org or 202-507-7524.