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The Immigrant Learning Center Public Education Institute 1-4-2021

Immigrants are a crucial part of pandemic recovery in the U.S.

Immigrants are vital members of the essential workforce that is getting us all through the pandemic. New research from The Immigrant Learning Center (The ILC) Public Education Institute dives deeply into the experiences and impact of the nearly one in five essential workers who are foreign-born. Immigrant Essential Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic shows the outsized contributions as well as risks born by immigrants, the ways in which they were prevented from contributing more and how we can do better in the future.

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Some of the lessons learned in this study include: The entire community suffers when foreign-born workers are excluded from support and protection offered to the U.S.-born. Licensing bureaucracy prevented immigrants from filling worker shortages in important industries. It’s not just a federal problem. State and local initiatives, and even individuals, can and did do a lot to improve outcomes.

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Written by Anuradha Sajjanhar, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in policy and governance at the Australian National University, and Denzil Mohammed, director of The ILC Public Education Institute, the report adds to the growing body of research exploring the role and impact of immigrant workers during the pandemic.

See the report’s findings  Watch a presentation of the report’s findings and a discussion among experts in immigration, health care and advocacy. These on-demand videos were taken from a webinar launching the report moderated by the National Immigration Forum’s Ali Noorani.

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About us The Immigrant Learning Center® (ILC) of Malden, MA, is a not-for-profit organization that gives immigrants a voice in three ways. The English Language Program provides free, year-round English classes to immigrant and refugee adults to help them become successful workers, parents and community members. The Public Education Institute informs Americans about immigrants and immigration in the United States, and the Institute for Immigration Research, a joint venture with George Mason University, conducts research on immigrants' economic contributions. For more information, visit our website www.ilctr.org or Facebook page.