Press Releases

• 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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• Report Shows Success of Excluded Worker Fund in New York – Summaries released in 6 Languages

  For Immediate Release Contacts: David Dyssegaard Kallick, Director, Immigration Research Initiative, 646-284-1240, [email protected] Spanish Language Contact: Anthony Capote, Senior Policy Analyst, Immigration Research Initiative, [email protected] Report Shows Success of Excluded… Read more

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• Experts and Impacted Community Members Brief on the Immigrant Community’s Contribution to the U.S. Economy

  New York – Earlier today, Make the Road, an organization with tens of thousands of members across Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) and the Immigration Research Institute (IRI) joined impacted community members to discuss the contributions made by immigrants to our country’s economy.

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• New Report Examining Unemployment Gaps During the Pandemic

  Immigrant unemployment during the pandemic recession spiked at a far higher rate than U.S.-born unemployment in New York State for the first time in recent decades, according to a new report from Immigration Research Initiative.

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