A legal status and road map to citizenship for the 11 million
undocumented immigrants in the country would have positive impacts on the
U.S. economy, and the sooner reform is implemented, the
bigger the gains, a new report from the Center for American Progress shows.
Citizenship
for the undocumented brings significant increases in economic growth
and earnings as well as tax revenues and jobs, said the report’s co-author Robert Lynch, visiting senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
“Legal
status and citizenship enable the undocumented to produce and earn much
more,” he said. “The resulting productivity and wage gains then ripple
through the economy because immigrants are not just workers, they are
also consumers and tax payers. They will spend their increased earnings
on thousands of things.”
Dold is not the poster child for the Tea Party. But the more
important fact for 10th district voters in Cook and Lake Counties is
that their representative mostly sided with a rightward-moving Republican Party. We offer a closer look at the 10th congressional district race between incumbent Robert Dold and Democratic challenger Brad Schneider.
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Bob Dold and Democratic candidate Brad Schneider
packed Lake Forest High School’s auditorium during their first live
debate in the 10th congressional district Sunday afternoon.
Dold, a Republican from Kenilworth, and Schneider,
a businessman from Deerfield, argued their positions on everything from
taxes and the economy to protecting the environment and women’s
reproductive rights.
Union members’ votes in the general election may make or
break whether Democrats take back control of the House of
Representatives, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-9) said at a labor rally
in Lincolnshire Saturday morning.
Dozens of organized workers in Illinois’ 10th congressional district met with Schakowsky for a pep talk in support of
Democrat candidate Brad Schneider, who’s looking to defeat first-term
incumbent U.S. Rep. Bob Dold (R), before they branched off for a
door-to-door canvas of fellow union members in the area.
“We
cannot win this race, and we can’t save our country, without organized
labor,” Schakowsky said at the International Union, United Automobile,
Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America’s Region 4 office.
As Chicago's Gay Pride weekend kicks off, Progress Illinois talks to some of the 25 couples that recently filed suit, along with Lambda Legal and ACLU, to challenge the constitutionality of an
Illinois law that denies gay and lesbian couples the freedom to marry.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi recommended Saturday that Illinois 2nd District voters side with incumbent U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D) for a very practical reason.
A legal status and road map to citizenship for the 11 million
undocumented immigrants in the country would have positive impacts on the
U.S. economy, and the sooner reform is implemented, the
bigger the gains, a new 
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Bob Dold and Democratic candidate Brad Schneider
packed Lake Forest High School’s auditorium during their first live
debate in the 10th congressional district Sunday afternoon. 
Union members’ votes in the general election may make or
break whether Democrats take back control of the House of
Representatives, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-9) said at a labor rally
in Lincolnshire Saturday morning.
