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Impact of NY’s Excluded Worker Fund – in 6 Languages
Read the 2-page summaries of how the fund helped workers and communities. In English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Bengali, and Arabic.
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Call for Survey Respondents! Help inform changes to the Medicaid Enrollment System
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Immigrants’ Experience with Medicaid Enrollment: Challenges and Recommendations
Medicaid enrollment can be a daunting process for many people—both U.S.-born New Yorkers and those who are foreign-born.
Immigration Research Initiative is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank on immigrant integration, looking at issues of economic, social, and cultural inclusion of immigrants in the United States.
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Economic Integration & Growth
How America’s diverse receiving communities fare as the demographic mix changes
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Inclusive Social Supports
Improving unemployment compensation, Medicaid enrollment, and other social supports
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Welcoming Communities
Ways government, nonprofit groups, and private actors can help immigrants
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Building Worker Power
Laws, policies, and analysis that support workers organizing efforts and worker rights
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State Immigration Project
IRI supports state-based groups across the country in immigration research and policy work, providing 50-state data analysis, and working closely with the State Priorities Partnership and EARN networks.
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In The News
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NYC asks feds to fast-track work papers for migrants amid busing crisis
Mayor Adams and members of the City Council have begun to aggressively pressure the federal government to process asylum seekers’ work papers more quickly, as the Texas busing program stretches New York’s social safety net to its limit.
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REPORT: Following Pandemic, Momentum Builds for Long-Term Unemployment Programs that Cover Immigrants, Other ‘Excluded Workers’
REPORT: Following Pandemic, Momentum Builds for Long-Term Unemployment Programs that Cover Immigrants, Other ‘Excluded Workers’ States nationwide increasingly look to establish annual UI programs for excluded workers, heeding lessons from… Read more
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