Immigration
Rooted in Racism
Minimum wage
Reconciliation 2025

If 4 million people are deported over the next four years:

  • 3.3 million fewer immigrants and 2.6 million fewer U.S.-born workers will be employed at the end of that period.
  • U.S.-born construction employment will fall by 861,000, and immigrant employment will fall by 1.4 million.
  • Half a million child care jobs will be eliminated.
  • California, Florida, New York, and Texas will have the highest job losses due to larger immigrant populations.

Instead of funding aggressive and indiscriminate immigration enforcement, Congress should improve wages and working conditions and provide adequate resources for labor standard enforcement. Read the report

Southern lawmakers have neglected basic worker protections and disinvested in social safety net programs while offering hefty subsidies to corporations, privatizing public goods, and giving the wealthy big tax breaks. In fact, in 11 Southern states, the poorest 20% of residents pay more in sales taxes alone than the top 1% of residents pay in all state and local taxes combined. 

When policies in the South fail to raise adequate revenue to pay for public goods and services, these same harmful policies are leveraged as “the cure,” creating a vicious cycle that keeps millions of Southerners locked into poverty and out of the benefits from economic growth. Read more

The budget reconciliation bill currently being forced through Congress by the Trump regime includes a “no tax on tips” provision that gives the illusion of helping lower-income workers while handing huge giveaways to the rich at the expense of the working class.

We compare the estimated impact of no tax on tips with the Raise the Wage Act of 2025 which would raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $17 an hour. Can you guess which one benefits workers far more? Read more

The Trump administration has set a goal of deporting one million immigrants annually. Although they currently lack the resources to meet that target, the Republican budget bill just passed by the Senate would dramatically boost funding for immigration enforcement. 

If Congress passes the Republican spending bill and Trump succeeds in carrying out his deportation goals, an estimated 5.9 million workers will lose their jobs over the next four years. Of those total losses, 3.3 million fewer immigrants and 2.6 million fewer U.S.-born workers will be employed. Read more

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