Immigration and Poverty
The Effects of Citizenship on Family Income and Poverty
Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute, February 2010
Children in Immigrant Families -- The U.S. and 50 States: Economic Need Beyond the Official Poverty Measure (pdf)
Donald J. Hernandez, Nancy A. Denton and Suzanne Macartney, Child Trends and The Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, April 2009
Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts
Robert Rector, Heritage Institute, October 2006
Some researchers claim that the poverty rate is artificially inflated due to the
massive inflow of low-skilled and less-educated immigrants.
Financial Access for Immigrants: Lessons From Diverse Perspectives (pdf)
Anna Paulson, Audrey Singer, Robin Newberger and Jeremy Smith, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Center for the Study of Financial Access for Immigrants and the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, May 2006
Immigration and poverty: Disappointing income growth in the 1990s not solely the result of growing immigrant
Jeff Chapman and Jared Bernstein, September 2002
Researchers from the Economic Policy Institute claim that the growth of the immigrant population is not the only or most critical contribution to the poverty increase.
Making It in America: Social Mobility in the Immigrant Population
George J. Borjas, Fall 2006
In this report, Borjas examines the social and economic mobility of 1st and 2nd generation immigrants, concluding that the historical trend of immigrants catching up to native-born workers fairly quickly is unlikely to continue, due to lack of opportunity and assimilation.
Misreading the Poverty Data
Robert Greenstein, September 2007
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