This week at CBPP, we focused on housing, food assistance, and health. Chart of the Week — Expanding Housing Vouchers Would Cut Poverty and Reduce Disparities   

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 […]

The Biden administration made two important immigration policy announcements this week. The first, which my colleague Andrew R. Arthur wrote about in detail, will allow aliens who are in the United States illegally and married to U.S. Citizens to receive “parole in place”, which would put many on a pathway to citizenship. The second, which I […]

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) submitted a public comment on June 12, 2024, to respond to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) notice of proposed rulemaking that will allow (but not require) asylum officers to apply some of the mandatory bars to asylum and withholding of removal to credible fear screenings. The policy change, which was originally initiated by the Trump administration […]

Amulti-state FBI counterterrorism wiretap sting has rolled up eight Tajikistani nationals in three cities who had entered over the U.S. Southwest Border and were plotting some sort of bombing. On its own, what little is known about this terrible new consequence of President Joe Biden’s ongoing historic mass migration border crisis – a coordinated, large-cell infiltration attack […]

The chaos at the border in recent years, along with even Democrat-run cities complaining about its impact, have cast into stark relief one of the central issues såurrounding illegal immigration: its fiscal costs. Unfortunately, most discussions on the subject tend to be filled with misconceptions, half-truths, and at times even outright falsehoods. A fair read […]

The amnesty the White House announced today is simply the latest — and maybe not even the largest — of its many unilateral decrees legalizing and/or letting into the country individuals who have no right to be in the United States. Unless Congress is willing to completely cede its power over immigration, as it has over […]

Sunday is the 100th anniversary of Calvin Coolidge signing the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, which brought the Ellis Island immigration wave to an end. In my New York Post op-ed, I argue that the official narrative that the law was execrable needs to be retired: “It was precisely the two-generation-long pause in immigration brought about by […]

Last November, shortly after House Republicans elected Mike Johnson as speaker of the House, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 25 other state attorneys general (AG) co-signers, urged the speaker to bring forward H.R. 1337, the “Immigration Enforcement Partnership Act of 2023” filed by Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.), a bill that would give state AGs greater authority […]

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) submitted a public comment this week to respond to a Department of Labor (DOL) request for information (RFI)1. DOL was soliciting input regarding whether STEM occupations (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) should be added to the list of occupations that DOL has “predetermined” are experiencing a “labor shortage” (known as the “Schedule A” list) -- that […]

Each summer the Justice & Society Seminar, co-founded in 1979 by the late Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, brings together a diverse group of lifelong learners to discuss what we mean by justice and how a just society should structure its legal, judicial, and political institutions. Participants explore and examine their values and beliefs […]

mily payments. In addition, states such as Oregon are actively considering ways to further expand family payments. For states considering a phased approach, a good place to start is to pass through all current monthly support collected for families receiving TANF and then not count (“disregard”) that child support as income so the family’s TANF benefits do […]