On September 24, 2026, the Economic Innovation Group submitted a comment letter to the Department of Homeland Security in response to its proposed rule, Fee for Certain H-1B Petitions. The letter ...

A new EIG report triangulates across different types of data to get a sense of what has been happening to entrepreneurship over the past few years — and the extent to which AI is driving the trends.

The pandemic ushered in a period of huge disruption to American life, altering how and where people across the United States live. The U.S. Census Bureau’s recently released 2022 county population ...

There are a variety of estimates of the share of the workforce that is remote, and these sources have differences owing to sampling methods, coverage universe, and other measurement issues. Last week, ...

No state has suffered as dramatic a reversal of economic fortune in recent years as New York. The pandemic accelerated a decade-long decline that saw the state relinquish a quarter-century’s worth of ...

Three-quarters of American voters support increasing high-skilled immigration (HSI), with widespread approval across the entire political spectrum and in every presidential swing state. That’s ...

The novelty of the OZ mechanism has ushered in a new generation of research as scholars race to grade the policy. Historically, researchers have found little lasting economic impact from legacy “zone” ...

Recent tremors in the labor market are being pinned on Artificial Intelligence. A cooling job market for technology workers, for example, is taken as evidence of AI-induced job loss. So is the rising ...

Foreign-born talent plays an indispensable role in innovation in strategic industries (those important for national or economic security). Immigrants are authors or co-authors on 30 percent of all ...

Too much research on remote work treats it as one uniform category of working. Although full-remote and hybrid work may seem fairly similar, the differences of their economic impacts are substantial.

Large urban counties have suffered severe declines in their population of young children. While overall population growth in such counties resumed in 2023 (mainly due to immigration) for the first ...

The “retirement crisis” is back on the national agenda. Retirement savings are one of the primary ways that Americans build wealth and financial security, backed by hundreds of billions of dollars in ...