The New “State” Of Illegal Immigration
By Jeremy Beck
Imagine a policy proposal to add another state’s worth of people every three years without adding any additional resources to provide for all of the necessities of American life
Author: Jeremy Beck
An Economist Changes His Mind: Immigration Does Contribute to Inequality
By Jeremy Beck
Immigration contributes to inequality. America has a special obligation to our citizens. And America’s economy is not working for the majority of citizens today. Those are three of Sir Angus Deaton’s – recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics – boat-rocking conclusions in his recently published article, “Rethinking My Economics,” on the International Monetary Fund’s website.
Conservation Candidates’ Immigration Challenge
By Jeremy Beck
Candidates who emphasize habitat and wildlife conservation have an edge in these Western states. But to fulfill campaign promises, conservation candidates will have to address immigration policy.
The Essential Barbara Jordan
By Jeremy Beck
Today is Barbara Jordan’s birthday. She would have been 88 years old. Tragically, she died in 1996, just before Congress voted on the immigration recommendations she developed over the last years of her life.
Idaho Sprawl Study Coverage
By Jeremy Beck
“Idahoans want less, not more, population growth,” by Leon Kolankiewicz, Idaho State Journal
Senate Immigration Deal Fails to Measure Up Against Barbara Jordan’s Credibility Yardstick
By Jeremy Beck
The Senate’s $118 billion border bill fails to measure up to Barbara Jordan’s simple yardstick to measure credible enforcement. Here are some of the details:
“Worker Shortage” or Employer Preference?
By Jeremy Beck
There is a long history of legislation siding with employers’ preferences for foreign labor over Black Americans. We have the receipts.
NumbersUSA sprawl studies: citations in scholarly literature
By Jeremy Beck
NumbersUSA’s sprawl studies have, for more than two decades, explored the role of population growth in each county in each state and the role of a multiplicity of decisions by government, business, and individuals that increase the average amount of developed land for each person in each county. Our sprawl studies have been cited in scholarly literature over a hundred times in over a dozen languages.
The Four Pillars of NumbersUSA
By Jeremy Beck
In the last act of a rich career of public service, Jordan led the commission through the most thorough examination of the impact of U.S. immigration policies of any federal commission to date.