The Census Bureau has released nationwide figures for poverty, income, and health insurance coverage in 2023 from its Current Population Survey. Additional health insurance data from the American Community Survey will follow September 12. We’ll be posting our analysis of the data here. Bookmark and visit this page for more. See our paper on what to […]
The share of people lacking health coverage reached an all-time low for the second consecutive year in 2023, falling to 7.9 percent, according to American Community Survey (ACS) data the Census Bureau released today. That’s down from the previous record of 8.0 percent in 2022. Unfortunately, this welcome record is tempered by findings that children’s […]
The sensational media dispute over Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and the nitpicking over individual anecdotes from that town is obscuring a far more important reality. Whatever else we know, it is a documented fact that the Biden-Harris Administration is complicit in a multinational effort, aided by major NGOs and U.N. organizations in collusion with […]
Most professional analyses of the September 10 presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump indicate that Harris “won” the debate. But does that mean that Harris “won over” enough voters to secure victory in November? Good question, because CNN held a snap poll following the debate, and the takeaways are surprising, to say the […]
This week at CBPP, we focused in particular on analyzing 2023 Census Bureau data on poverty, income, and health coverage. Beyond our Census data analyses, we focused on federal taxes, state budgets and taxes, and health. Chart of the Week – Uninsured Rate Decreased Across Most States Following Policy Improvements Uninsured Rate Decreased Across Most […]
The Aspen Institute was founded on the conviction that a better society requires better leaders who are more self-aware, more self-correcting, and more humane. Over the past seven decades, the Aspen Executive Seminar on Leadership, Values, and the Good Society has established a track record of challenging participants from diverse backgrounds to evolve into better […]
Acontroversial foreign-labor program developed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and managed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is creating an incentive for employers to hire foreign students rather than U.S. citizens or permanent residents while potentially costing the Social Security and Medicare programs over $4 billion in lost revenue every year. The […]
Numerous press outlets have taken great pains to counter claims that Vice President Kamala Harris is or ever has been the “border czar”, contending instead that her migration portfolio simply involved the “root causes” of illegal migration from the three “Northern Triangle” countries of Central America: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Those same outlets have been circumspect […]
The Census Bureau today released the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS), which shows a total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) of 47.83 million in July 2023 — an increase of 1.65 million compared to the 2022 ACS. The size of the foreign-born population and the year-over-year increase are the largest the survey has […]
When the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) released its latest study of tax payments made by illegal immigrants, some advocates were notably excited, including a labor union and a former Labor Department secretary: https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1821640802067464526&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcis.org%2FRichwine%2FTax-Payments-Illegal-Immigrants&sessionId=5adb9311e34390749f9476e006b11151742cf680&siteScreenName=CIS_org&siteUserId=95480831&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1820599419848311191&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcis.org%2FRichwine%2FTax-Payments-Illegal-Immigrants&sessionId=5adb9311e34390749f9476e006b11151742cf680&siteScreenName=CIS_org&siteUserId=95480831&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px Even leaving aside the labor movement’s self-defeating embrace of mass immigration, the enthusiasm for this study is difficult to understand. […]
Progressive Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday and called for “comprehensive immigration reform” — including a “pathway to citizenship”, i.e., amnesty, for 11 million illegal immigrants. She then said the quiet part out loud, admitting that a President Kamala Harris “will work with Congress to get that done.” This Democratic […]
In my last post, I offered a timeline of Vice President Kamala Harris’s activities as the administration’s “Root Causes of Migration Czar”. Included was a lengthy excerpt from a January 2022 White House “readout” of a meeting Harris had with the then-newly elected president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, during the last trip Harris took abroad in the […]
