What have I've been saying all along..
I have said in the past if it wasn't for the importation of refugees our community is losing population."There's a big difference between gaining population and losing population, and for Buffalo, this could be that difference," said David D. Kallick, director of the immigration policy initiative at the Fiscal Policy Institute, an Albany think tank.
Buffalo has been losing population for decades. But the city's population has almost stabilized in recent years, thanks in large part to an influx of refugees and other immigrants.
What is the point of boosting population if there is no job growth?Refugees started pouring into Buffalo in the mid-2000s, after the city's four refugee resettlement agencies decided to ramp up their efforts in hopes of boosting the city's population.
Not so. Only economy you may be growing is the "government" economy."Unless you're growing the population, you're not growing the economy," noted Eva M. Hassett, executive director of the International Institute of Buffalo, a refugee resettlement agency.
What supports clinics? Usually tax funds from net tax payers.. Correct?The slowdown could mean less business for health clinics and other institutions set up to serve the refugee community, said Bill Sukaly, program coordinator for refugee resettlement at Catholic Charities of Buffalo.
The employers really count on the federal tax funds to continue, correct?"Some of the employers we work with count on a continuing supply of refugee workers," Sukaly added. "So it's going to have a big economic impact. It's a pretty big ripple effect."
ANd here it is.
And these agencies depend on "Government Money" to operate. Our money. Money that could be going into infrastructure repair or to people who are already here and need help.That impact will be felt most severely at the refugee resettlement agencies, which laid off staff when Trump initially cut the refugee program. The agencies may have to cut more employees in 2018 as the federal funds they receive dwindle.
I'm going to be blunt but honest. Go get a job in the growing economy you are creating by using tax fund to import refugees into the community at someone else's expense.The federal government recently canceled plans to begin refugee resettlement in Niagara Falls through Jewish Family Service of Buffalo and Erie County, and Marlene A. Schillinger, the agency's president, said she fears that there are worse days ahead for her agency's refugee program.
"I was driving around town today and I was thinking to myself: how are we going to make it?" Schillinger said.
We just have to read up a few paragraphs
How are you going to make it? You can get a job at one of the grocery stores or other businesses that are now open.Within a few years, refugee-owned groceries and other businesses opened in once-vacant storefronts on Grant and Niagara streets, as the West Side and Black Rock/Riverside came to be home to thousands of newcomers from Burma and other troubled nations.
Not really."Unless you're growing the population, you're not growing the economy," noted Eva M. Hassett, executive director of the International Institute of Buffalo, a refugee resettlement agency.