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THE FORUM DAILY

If we want our economy to keep growing, immigration reforms are crucial,
according to the just posted 2023 edition
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an annual report by President Biden's Council of Economic Advisers
(CEA). 

As Andrea Shalal of Reuters
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reports, the council found that increasing immigration, as well as
public spending on childcare, is essential to meet labor supply needs
moving forward. 

"If we want to continue the kinds of economic prosperity that we count
on ... we have to have all hands-on deck," said CEA Chair Cecilia
Rouse.  

We have some resources for going deeper on the need for reforms amid an
aging U.S. workforce, slowing population growth and declining labor
force participation: 

* Last year we wrote about how immigration solutions can help address
labor shortages
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* And back in 2021, in our Room to Grow paper
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we offered "a recommendation for setting evidence-backed immigration
levels that combat the worst effects of demographic decline and protect
the nation's social and economic health."   

Welcome to Tuesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan Gordon, the
Forum's strategic communications VP, and the great Forum Daily team
also includes Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez and Katie Lutz. If you have a
story to share from your own community, please send it to me at
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. 

**SPEAKING OF GROWTH** - Providing in-state tuition to all Texas
students regardless of immigration status is crucial to securing and
strengthening the state's economic future, Dennis Nixon and Michael
Hinojosa write in a column for The Dallas Morning News
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"Dreamers are a crucial part of our state's future growth, wealth and
workforce needs," write Nixon, the CEO of IBC Bank, and Hinojosa, former
superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District. "We Texans do
not want to see our home state lose its competitive edge to other states
because we signed onto an anti-commonsense policy similar to what
[Republican Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis supports." 

**TOPLINE CONCERNS** - And speaking of DeSantis, our policy expert
Christian Penichet-Paul just published an explainer
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detailing five key concerns in the governor's hardline immigration
proposal. One of them, a requirement that hospitals collect information
on the immigration status of its patients, is "dangerous and
short-sighted," investor and digital health consultant Bill Lucia opines
in the Miami Herald
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particular proposal is dangerous and can only result in lost lives,
diminished quality of care and higher healthcare costs for all Florida
patients," Lucia writes.  

**REASONS FOR REFORMS** - In case you're wondering, broad
immigration reforms would still really help us. That's according to a
fresh look
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at the kinds of reforms Senate Republicans and Democrats worked together
to pass in 2013, by Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum.
His last line: "[R]eform would have broad benefits for labor force
growth, employment, economic output, and the federal budget."  

A HEART FOR IMMIGRANTS - May the late Auxiliary Bishop David
O'Connell's heart and help for immigrants inspire us all. Mike
Cisneros and Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Diocese's Angelus News
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write about it as part of a broader commemoration of the bishop, who was
murdered last month. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

 

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