During the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, essential workers have provided health care, food, and other necessities, often incurring considerable risk. At the pandemic’s start, the federal government was in…
New research from ICH, City University of New York, and Harvard Medical School suggests that immigrants may contribute more in premiums and taxes to the health care economy than they…
New research from ICH, City University of New York, and Harvard Medical School highlights U.S. immigrants’ outsized contributions to Medicare, illustrating that immigrants—including undocumented immigrants—use relatively little health care.
Importance Knowledge about use of health care services (health care utilization) and expenditures among unauthorized immigrant populations is uncertain because of limitations in ascertaining legal status in population data. Objective To examine…
Research Objective: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has led to economic, educational, and mental health gains for recipients and their children. The summer of 2015 ushered in a period of…
