Wall Street Journal columnist L. Gordon Crovitz agrees that immigration is an economic issue, a point I made in Sunday’s column. He recites various statistics to back up his point:

Half of Silicon Valley start-ups were founded by immigrants, up from 25%…

Kevin Drum, writing on Washington Monthly’s Political Animal blog, has an interesting perspective on last week’s report by the Social Security trustees. Drum drills into the report’s tables to find out how illegal immigrants (which the trustees call “other-immigrants”) affect Social Security’s…

Much of the immigration debate has centered on legalities — who has documents and who doesn’t. If we could refocus the debate on  economics, it might be a lot easier to reach consensus.

Giovanni Peri, a University of California-Davis economist, writes…

As Congress debates whether to get tough on illegal immigrants or take a more measured approach, the White House Council of Economic Advisers has issued a white paper  tallying the benefits of immigration. Its key findings:

1. On average, US natives benefit from immigration. Immigrants…

Since we just had a spirited discussion of the budgetary effects of immigration, it’s a good time to look  at the Congressional Budget Office’s new report on the compromise immigration bill. The CBO says the bill’s overall budget effect is modest: It…

A reader named Ed, responding to my pro-immigration column today, brings up the argument that immigrants are a burden on the taxpayer. He writes:

When you combine low wages with lack of education and the inability to speak our standard language,…

While the Consumer Price Index is rising roughly 2.5 percent  a year,   construction companies are facing an inflation rate more than twice that high. It’s likely to remain there for the forseeable future, says Ken Simonson, chief economist at…