Immigrants founded or cofounded almost half of 50 top venture-backed companies in the United States, a new study shows, underscoring some of the high stakes in potential immigration reform.
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Behind Door #1 are people of extraordinary ability: scientists, artists, educators, business people and athletes. Behind Door #2 stand a random assortment of people. Which door should the United States open?
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Congress could be hampering economic growth by moving slowly on immigration reform. Illegal border crossings may grab the headlines, but the entrepreneurial spirit of foreign-born graduate students has become essential for job creation
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Iowa business, community, faith and law enforcement leaders today warned that "enforcement-only" approaches to immigration could hurt the state and national economies, especially agriculture. "Welcoming immigrants is crucial for our economy in Iowa," said Tom Hughes, president of the Iowa Nursery and Landscape Association.
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The Birmingham Business Alliance today said the Alabama Legislature needs to make significant revision to the state's controversial immigration law during the upcoming 2012 legislative session.
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More and more, business leaders, lawmakers and others throughout the country are realizing the vital role immigrants play in sustaining the U.S.-American economy, and the potentially critical influence they could have in revitalizing it.
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Alabama's harsh new immigration law has been in effect for less than three months, but it has already wreaked the kind of havoc that's inevitable when legislators are so obsessed with driving out illegal immigrants that they don't think much about who else gets hurt in the process.
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One shouldn't blame state Rep. Micky Hammon, R-Decatur, for wishing the state's mean-spirited immigration law is responsible for Alabama's sharp decline in unemployment for October. The rate fell from 9.8 percent in September to 9.3 percent in October, and Hammon, the House majority leader and primary co-sponsor of HB56,...
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Alabama's construction industry is losing jobs faster than almost every state in the nation, and industry experts say some of the losses are due to the state's strict new immigration law. Figures from the Associated General Contractors, an Arlington, Va.-based trade group, showed that construction-related employment in Alabama has...
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The AP reports that the agriculture industry is worried about enforcement measures like E-Verify, a flawed tool which would evaluate whether or not an employee is legal to work in the United States.
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