New Report: Forfeiting the Trillion-Dollar Dream

We’ve gathered some of the country’s most respected social scientists to quantify the costs of ending DACA, providing a running tally of the economic costs of the program’s termination while also lifting up the lived experiences of real-life DACA recipients. Among other findings, we discovered an estimated 440,000 jobs would be lost at a time when workforce shortages are already hurting families and driving up costs across the country. Long-term, up to $648 billion in future income losses are predicted as well as hundreds of billions in government revenue and business losses, to say nothing of the dire social costs that will be paid by hundreds of thousands of directly impacted individuals and their families who have long called this country home.