Immigration
Immigrants helped build America’s manufacturing industry, and immigration reform is essential to our competitiveness worldwide. We need a system that provides certainty for our businesses and dedicated employees, ensures national security, offers compassion and is consistent with our values and our history as a nation of immigrants.
Retirees Boost Some Rural Populations
May 12, 2022The Wall Street Journal (subscription). What’s happening: “Sevier County, [Tennessee,] along with a small number of other rural counties, aren’t only growing, but are adding residents at a faster clip than the U.S. overall, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the 2020 census found. Preliminary census estimates for those counties show the trend continuing into…
New Program Will Speed Ukrainian Asylum Process
April 22, 2022CNBC. What’s going on: “The ‘Unite for Ukraine’ program will allow individual Americans and nonprofits to sponsor Ukrainian refugees, provided they can financially support them.” The new initiative is part of a broader push by the administration to assist Ukrainians as they fend of Russia’s attacks. The president also announced on Thursday $1.3 billion in…
Can Demand for Housing Keep Pace with Rising Rates?
April 19, 2022The Wall Street Journal (subscription). By the numbers: “Mortgage rates are rising at their fastest pace in 35 years, making home purchases much more expensive than even a few months ago. The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage climbed from 3.22% in early January to 5% as of Thursday, according to mortgage-finance giant Freddie…
