How Immigrants Fuel New York City's Economy

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 8, 2023

Cara Eisenpress, senior tech reporter at Crain's New York, and Neeraj Kaushal, professor of social policy at the Columbia School of Social Work and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, dig into the data and find that an overall drop in the number of immigrants coming to New York City is making for a slow economic recovery.

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