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Immigration Impact on GDP

The impact of immigration on GDP growth, comparing Brookings and Congressional Budget Office projections.

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Jan 27, 2026
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how much to undocumented aliens add to the national GDP

do not have a single, universally agreed‑upon line item in GDP tables, but recent analyses place their direct economic footprint in the hundreds of billions annually: researchers and advocacy groups e...

Jan 26, 2026
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How do CBO and Brookings differ in assumptions when projecting the macroeconomic impact of reduced immigration?

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...