Commentary: Refugees don't drain America's economy. They revitalize it
by Tim Breene, Los Angeles Times
Feb 14, 2018
3 minutes
Over the past year, the number of refugees who resettled to the United States fell from about 97,000 to fewer than 34,000. The primary victims of this reduction are displaced people escaping violence and oppression, many of whom have been living in refugee camps for years.
But there is another casualty: the U.S. economy.
I am far from the first to say this.
Numerous studies have established the economic benefits of taking in
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