For undocumented youth, the chance to receive legal status would be a life changer. Professor Amy Hsin shows how legalization could encourage young immigrants to get a college degree and even reduce the national deficit, all without threatening the wages of U.S. born workers.
For more on this topic
- Read Hsin’s opinion piece in The Hill, How the DREAM Act Can Actually Lower the Deficit
- Check out an Econofact memo on her research, The Economic Gains from Legalizing DREAMers
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