By Mary Campbell Click here to know your rights President Donald Trump’s intensified efforts to identify and deport undocumented individuals in the United States have significant implications for various sectors of the economy. Undocumented workers constitute a substantial portion of the labor force in several […]
By Amir Khafagy, Documented NY Newly arrived from Guyana and with a pregnant wife at home, Jermaine Cranmore, 34, was looking for a job. Sipping on a drink at a local cafe in Richmond Hill, Queens, Cranmore struck up a conversation with a fellow countryman. As it turned out, his new acquaintance happened to be […]
Federal Policies Still Weighing on City’s Labor Force The size of New York City’s immigrant workforce was flat over nearly a decade, according to a new report from New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Through 2023, the foreign-born labor market grew 18.5% since 2015 nationally, while New York City’s declined 0.6%, according to data analyzed from […]