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June, 2019
Program Materials
Find all program-related materials for the webinar, " Economic Security for Immigrants: Innovative ... presentation, recording, and other resources.
Materials: Economic Security for Immigrants: Innovative Workforce Approaches ...
March, 2019
Program Materials
... innovative approaches to asset building in native and immigrant communities and how funders can engage. Find all related materials for the webinar, "' Empowerment Economics’ – Innovations in ...
February 17, 2017
Commentary
For many of us, it would be inconceivable to go through life without a checking account, ... of mainstream financial products and services. One in three immigrant households does not have a checking account—and that rate increases ... to finance application fees.
Mexican consulates, community development credit unions and financial institutions, and ...
January, 2018
Report
... farmworkers. Using national data from the US Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), we detail and examine differences in earnings among farmworkers based on certain characteristics identified in ...
October 25, 2018
News Article
... from downtown Portland, Oregon.
The 47-year-old was in a maritime welding program where he and 10 classmates were learning to ... That’s because Balcazar has more than a decade’s worth of welding experience. He learned the craft in 2007, while working for a ...
February, 2019
Report
... ($117,000) is growing every year, while the median wealth of black and Latino households ($1700 and $2000, respectively) is declining. ... (AAPI) leaders and organizations. Each community has its own history and relationship with colonization, forced displacement, cultural ...
November, 2016
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
March 7, 2017
Commentary
... Gonzalez and Michael Kavate, GCIR
Florida has one of the hottest economies in the nation—and immigrants and refugees are ... investment, didn’t always think of himself as an “immigrant funder.” Yet, a closer look at his grants portfolio, showed support ...
July 23, 2018
Commentary
... visit to southwestern Minnesota by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis president reaffirms what many economic experts already had ...
Neel Kashkari visited Worthington for two days this month, and as MPR News reported, he said immigrants are helping that southwest ...
March, 2017
Report
... can serve customers not only in English, but in a wide range of other languages as well. In 2013 a record 305,000 U.S. companies reported ... survey data. Such work does not accurately reflect the rich diversity of today’s labor and consumer market.8 It also fails to provide ...
September 29, 2014
News Article
Immigrants in the country illegally can apply for professional licenses under a new ... all 40 licensing boards under the California Department of Consumer Affairs to consider applicants regardless of immigration status by ... bar despite lacking legal status.
Denisse Rojas, who's applying to medical school, said the new law is a huge relief for students ...
April, 2019
Government Publication
... immigrants make to the state economy and that children of working immigrant families are far more likely to live in poverty than other children. ...
May 14, 2019
Blog Post
In the next few weeks, state policymakers will decide whether to expand California’s Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC) — a refundable state tax credit that boosts the incomes of families and individuals who earn little from their jobs. Governor ...
July, 2017
Funding Recommendations
October, 2017
Report
... racial wealth gap stretch back to the birth of this nation. History also shows us the great strength, resiliency, and creativity of communities who survived extreme ...
March 12, 2019
Webinar
... Policy (IASP)
Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) ... innovative approaches to asset building in native and immigrant communities and discuss what funders can do to improve economic ...
May 2, 2018
Regional Briefing
... and refugees are vital to shared community prosperity. Immigrant entrepreneurs start businesses that revive vacant storefronts, step ... employees retire, and are consumers for a wide range of industries. In order to contribute fully and achieve long-term economic ...
March 21, 2018
Webinar
... as a catalyst for community revitalization and an engine of economic growth.
While newcomers possess an entrepreneurial spirit, they ... and Regional Equity and the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration. Dr. Pastor will share key findings from research ...
May 8, 2019
Partner Program
... It is open to conference participants.
In an era of intense political rhetoric around immigration, it is more important than ... by supporting economic well being and power building within immigrant and refugee communities.
The panel, which includes GCIR's Kevin ...
June 11, 2019
Webinar
... arrests, accelerated I-9 employer audits, and the resumption of Social Security Administration’s "No Match Letters" to employers, ... pushing back against harmful policies, it is important that immigrant inclusion strategies include a focus on immigrants’ ability to ...