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Inflation during Donald Trump’s first term (2017–2021) remained low and stable, averaging roughly 1.9–2.5% year‑over‑year and dipping to 1.2% in 2020 amid the COVID downturn, according to multiple ret...
Available reporting shows deportation totals and enforcement priorities are reported by nationality and enforcement category, and several analyses and surveys document racial and ethnic impacts or fea...
Available reporting shows multiple, differing tallies for U.S. removals in 2025: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced totals “more than 527,000” removals by October 27, 2025 , while...
Immigrants are demonstrably filling large and growing gaps in the U.S. labor force—especially in agriculture, construction, health care, and caregiving—because the domestic supply of workers has not k...
Tariffs are legally paid at the border by the importer of record, but who “ultimately” bears the cost—the economic incidence—depends on markets, contracts, and corporate choices: consumers, domestic f...
There is no single authoritative count in the available reporting for “how many undocumented people have entered the U.S. since President Trump’s second term began”; sources instead provide competing ...
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) was a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package enacted March 2021 that aimed to stabilize households, support public health, and send $350 billion to state and local govern...
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) was a $1.9 trillion, deficit‑financed relief package enacted March 2021 to counter the pandemic’s economic damage and included direct payments, expanded unemployment ben...
Undocumented immigrants play significant roles in U.S. labor markets and public finances: several analyses find immigration supports labor-force growth and reduces long‑run budget deficits overall (EP...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive count of “non‑Hispanics deported in 2025,” and U.S. agencies have published varying aggregate removal figures that do not disaggregate deportation...
The U.S. unemployment rate moved modestly higher from 2024 into 2025, shifting from an average near the low 4 percent range in 2024 to readings clustered between about 4.1 and 4.6 percent through 2025...
Tariffs enacted and expanded since April 2025 are empirically linked to a measurable uptick in consumer prices: model-based and empirical work estimates first-round effects ranging from roughly 0.5 to...
Independent analyses converge that the 2025–26 U.S. tariff program raises consumer prices modestly to materially—estimates cluster between a one-off price-level increase of roughly 0.9–2.3 percent and...
Tariffs raise the price of imported goods and act like a tax on consumers and businesses, tending to reduce real incomes and output while generating government revenue—effects economists and modeling ...
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) was a $1.9 trillion law signed on March 11, 2021 to address COVID-19 economic and public‑health fallout . Contemporary legislative summaries and fiscal analyses attribut...
As of January 2025, the U.S. foreign‑born (immigrant) population was reported at 53.3 million, a record high, though government and independent tabulations show the number fell through mid‑2025 to abo...
The legally resident (foreign‑born) population of the United States grew substantially from 2010 into the early 2020s — rising from roughly 40 million in the 2010 era to record highs above 50 million ...
Regional data in available reporting points to the Southwest — especially the U.S.-Mexico border sectors such as San Diego and broader states like California — as where the largest declines in the und...
Falling immigration has coincided with mixed labor-market signals in 2025: net international migration (NIM) is estimated to have plunged to about 515,000 in 2025 from 2.2 million in 2024 (San Francis...
Experts chiefly use the “residual” approach — subtracting legally resident foreign‑born counts from total foreign‑born counts in surveys — and complementary methods like CPS-SSA nonmatch or administra...