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The simple numeric claim — 2.1 million, 1.6 million, 130,000 — matches reputable state estimates published by Pew and summarized in contemporary fact-checks, but those figures reflect the 2023 unautho...
Annual U.S. inflation eased to about 2.9% at the end of 2024 (December 2024) and early-2025 12‑month measures showed a modest uptick to roughly 3.0% by January 2025, reflecting a tight band around the...
Illegal (unauthorized/undocumented) immigrants produce measurable economic benefits for the United States—contributing taxes, filling essential jobs, and supporting GDP growth—while also creating loca...
Illegal (undocumented) immigrants influence the U.S. labor market, but the effect is complex: they increase labor supply and exert downward pressure on wages in some low-skill occupations while also f...
Headline CPI shows modestly higher annual inflation in early 2025 than in late 2024: the CPI rose 3.0% from January 2024 to January 2025 versus 2.9% for the 12 months ending December 2024 (BLS) . Mont...
From 2021–2024 the United States saw an unprecedented surge in net international migration, with multiple analyses reporting annual net inflows well above historical norms and total net migration in t...
Debt held by the public is roughly in the range of about 115–119 percent of GDP today, depending on the measure and cut of the data — the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Economic Committee put “...
in has grown since 2019 but the increase has not been uniform: national estimates from policy researchers show several million more unauthorized residents concentrated increasingly in a subset of stat...
Inflation in 2025 was driven by a mix of housing and medical-care price strength, a rebound in goods prices (partly tied to tariffs), and episodic energy and food swings; headline CPI hit about 2.9–3....
Estimates of the undocumented (unauthorized) immigrant population diverge because research groups use different data sources and methods—residual calculations from surveys like the /, administrative r...
Strong labor demand after the pandemic and shifting labor supply in together drove migration patterns from 2020–2024: a pull from plentiful U.S. low‑ and middle‑skill job openings and a push from demo...
and the diverge chiefly on underlying population tallies, assumed outflow rates for recent arrivals, and whether (and how) to fold immigration-driven productivity gains into macro projections; Brookin...
AI so far has nudged unemployment upward in select pockets—notably among younger and some college‑educated workers—while overall unemployment effects remain modest in aggregate according to several re...
Two principal federal and research estimates frame the recent surge in net migration: the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) places net inflows of “other foreign nationals” — largely unauthorized migra...
Federal debt held by the public in 2025 is roughly equal to the size of the U.S. economy — about 100 percent of GDP — according to the Congressional Budget Office and Treasury-based data, though publi...
A mix of court bottlenecks, congressional or state legislative moves, and administrative changes to together determine whether in 2026; increased , fewer releases, and faster interior arrests have dri...
Overall, unauthorized immigrant totals shifted markedly since 2019: ’s statewide is reported to have declined modestly while experienced , and those state-level moves mask important county-level diver...
Since 2021 the revised its demographic baseline sharply upward to reflect an unprecedented post‑2020 , and those revisions have lifted CBO’s projections of and while also changing the presumed pace of...
The sources reviewed do not provide a direct, state-by-state breakdown of the share of who specifically hold temporary protections such as , or for , , and ; however, national and state-level reportin...
Recent research from 2020–2024 converges on a nuanced conclusion: make measurable contributions to economic activity and tax revenues, while also producing localized wage pressures for some low‑skille...