Reva J. Resstack

Graph of the effects of job mentoring on employment among asylum seekers. The number of people fleeing war and persecution worldwide has nearly tripled since the early 2010s, challenging European policymakers to ensure swift integration of asylum seekers into the labour market. This column assesses a pilot programme in Italy that provides early, personalised labour market support to asylum seekers. Even in resource-constrained settings, the early targeted support led to a 30% net increase in employment, improved the quality of employment, boosted language proficiency, and fostered greater social integration with the local communities.

Early targeted labour market support to asylum seekers = 30% net increase in employment, improved the quality of employment, boosted language proficiency, & fostered greater social integration with the local communities.
G Abbiati, E Battistin, P Monti, P Pinotti
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🆕 Why ‘Brain Drain’ is an incomplete story of migration 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, @catiabatista.bsky.social (@novafrica.bsky.social) & Caroline Theoharides (Amherst College) discuss the channels through which emigration can benefit origin countries: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

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OMB is gathering input on the data's importance.

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The tragic Texas flood warning failure is a reminder: Government protections, like vaccines, save countless lives, but require trust and upkeep to work their quiet magic. When politicians claim these systems do more harm than good, people die. And we’re about to relearn that lesson, again and again.

Striking graph in the FT on how migrants drove the Biden boom. Also includes this stat: "60 per cent of the top US-based artificial intelligence companies had at least one immigrant founder" 1/2 on.ft.com/44frdpU

When we said the United States delivered people to a Salvadoran “torture prison,” it was no exaggeration.

Ábrego García:
- Was beaten with batons
- Was forced to kneel overnight, beaten if he collapsed, made to soil himself
- Heard screams as gang members freely harmed each other
- Lost 31 pounds

You've heard about how ICE deported a bunch of adults to a Salvadoran torture prison based on their tattoos. Did you know that the Big Beautiful Police State Act includes millions to identify "gang kids" the same way?

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

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If Stephen Miller were to spend a week in Port-au-Prince with the money in his pocket that an average Haitian has, he'd likely determine otherwise.

Surprised by how many in DC are going along with the #privatization of #aid - presenting it as an incredible "opportunity" for private foundations. All too willing to obfuscate the public's responsibility to the public's well-being..

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🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook!
You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients.

📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille.

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Some interesting graphs on where #funding for #refugees has been going in this piece

AI, Forced Displacement, Refugees, Anticipatory Action The World Bank has developed an AI-driven model to forecast refugee flows into Uganda from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan. The model draws on hard data spanning the economi...

The World Bank has developed an #AI-driven model to forecast refugee flows into #Uganda from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan. What does it mean that the news and social media #language variables negatively predict refugee inflows?

Desk rejection rates and time to review at different development journals.

Desk rejection rates average 72%, so conditional on getting past the desk reject stage, there is about a 30-40% chance of acceptance at most journals. Some journals now have mean time to a decision conditional on going to referees under 90 days, but a small % don't have decisions in 6 months still.

Trump Halts Biden-Era Farmworker Rule, Citing Legal Uncertainty and Farmer Relief - EconoTimes The Trump administration has officially suspended enforcement of a 2024 labor rule introduced under President Joe Biden that granted union protections to foreign farmworkers on H-2A visas. The…

The Trump administration has officially suspended enforcement of a 2024 labor rule introduced under President Joe Biden that granted union protections to foreign farmworkers on H-2A visas. econotimes.com/Trump-Halts-...

The Philippines "brain drain"

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Every time you hear DHS say that anyone who objects to ICE's mass deportation campaign is pro-violent felons, understand that those violent convicts are less than 7% of its work for this year. It's misleading the public about what ICE actually does. cato.org/blog/65-peop...

Urge your members of Congress to restart refugee resettlement and unfreezing federal funding

Today is #WorldRefugeeDay

The US Administration has obliterated our entire refugee program—zeroing out admissions of refugees & terminating support to refugees already here.

If you are American, please tell your representative to reverse this policy.

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Department of Homeland Security AGENCY: DHS-USICE RIN: 1653-AA96 Status: Pending Review for rule 1653-AA96 Request EO Meeting for rule 1653-AA96 TITLE: Collection of Civil Monetary Penalties for Certain Immigration Related Violations STAGE: Interim Final Rule ECONOMICALLY SIGNIFICANT: No ** RECEIVED DATE: 06/18/2025 LEGAL DEADLINE: None

NEW: Yesterday the Trump admin indicated that it's planning to publish a new regulation, to go into effect immediately, that will create a system for them to impose civil penalties of millions to billions (not kidding) of dollars for specific immigration violations.

The White House’s FY26 budget proposes a two-thirds cut to global health & humanitarian aid—undercutting claims of preserving life-saving support.

@charlesjkenny.bsky.social & @justsand.bsky.social examine the potential toll in lives lost if Congress approves the cuts:
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Remittance crackdown is a tax on the poor Planned US levy is part of a bigger squeeze on capital flows to poor countries

Scandalous.

Contained in the 1,000-plus pages of the [Trump budget bill] going through Congress is a mean-spirited measure to tax money sent abroad by non-US citizens, including visa holders and permanent residents.

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Great @thewashingtonpost.bsky.social article by @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social and Andrew Ackerman on what the Trump administration’s policies will mean for (net) migration this year and with that for families, businesses, and the economy generally.

How Immigration is Shaping US Cities Immigrants were responsible for over 42% of population growth in America’s 100 largest metro areas, including Los Angeles.

🇺🇸 What we're losing: "Immigrants made up 22% of the labor force in the top 100 metro areas in 2023.. their #employment rate was 96.1%.

Immigrant-led households contributed over $577.4 billion in #taxes in 2023, including $373.1 billion in federal and $204.3 billion in state and local taxes..."

I read *a lot* of scientific abstracts that are missing key elements.

Here are the 5 things an abstract needs:

1. Introduce the topic,
2. State the unknown,
3. Outline the method used to answer the question,
4. Preview the findings, and
5. Tell us what your work teaches us.

As India responded to international demand for IT workers, more people acquired skills than emigrated-- raising the number of people with those skills at home.

👀 Smaller, lower-income countries often rue the loss of high-skilled workers who emigrate for greater opportunities, but PSC's @deanyang.bsky.social @umfordschool.bsky.social et al find this out-migration often comes with positive feedback loops for countries of origin. myumi.ch/rAwer #EconSky

And some say women are too emotional for positions of leadership 🙄

DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT and FOREIGN ASSISTANCE DISCRETIONARY REQUEST FY 2024 - FY 2026 $ in thousands FY 2024 Estimate1 FY 2025 Estimate FY 2026 Request Change from FY 2024 Estimate Change from FY 2025 Estimate STATE AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS TOTAL (Includes Function 150, 300, and 800 accounts; excluding rescissions and cancellations) 62,724,075 59,800,084 31,204,029 (31,520,046) (28,596,055)

The State Department 2026 budget request sent to Congress on Friday is one of the most unhinged documents I’ve ever seen.

Economic aid cut 64% from 2024-2026

Security aid cut 31%

Counter-drug and -crime aid cut 91%

Migration aid cut 62%

Overall State Dept cut 50%

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