(Outlet: PBS News) Immigration is a key issue of this campaign. Vice President Harris says if elected, she will pass a bipartisan bill strengthening border security. Former President Trump promises a much larger crackdown including mass deportations. Zeke Hernandez, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, says “We have very clear evidence that native-born young men and women will simply not do those jobs. They will not take them, even during times of very high unemployment.”…Read More
(Outlet: NPR) Immigration is a top concern among U.S. voters this election cycle. But Zeke Hernandez, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies immigration, thinks politicians and the media aren’t giving the public the full story.…Read More
(Outlet: The Guardian) “It would be an economic disaster for America and Americans,” says Zeke Hernandez, an economics professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, of Trump’s deportations threat. “It’s not just the immigrants would be harmed, but we, the people of America, would be economically harmed.”…Read More
(Outlet: CNN) Experts say any path a future Trump administration picks would be complicated and costly, due to both the billions of dollars needed to fund mass deportation and the significant ripple effects that would hit the economy.…Read More
(Outlet: Bloomberg) Zeke Hernandez, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, discusses both legal and illegal immigration, and how it has impacted the US economy, speaking with Kailey Leinz on Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power.” …Read More
(Outlet: The New York Times) The former president often implies that deportations will bring down housing costs. Reality is more complicated. “In the long run, immigrants are the solution to the housing crisis,” said Exequiel Hernandez, an associate professor who studies immigration at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. “Without immigrants, you can’t increase the supply of housing.”…Read More
(Outlet: Ripple Effect) In this episode of Knowledge at Wharton’s Ripple Effect, Wharton’s Britta Glennon shares her research that dispels long-held myths about immigrants and how they influence the U.S. economy. This episode is part of a series on the “Business of Elections.”…Read More
(Outlet: Bloomberg) Ahead of a US election focused on migrants, Zeke Hernandez’s book argues that newcomers can make the whole country richer.…Read More
(Outlet: WHYY) With immigration a key issue in the 2024 presidential election, Studio 2 hosted a live conversation on the topic at the Kennett Library with insight from stakeholders in southern Chester County, where the labor needs of the local mushroom industry highlight the flaws of our federal immigration policy.…Read More
(Outlet: Wharton Global Youth Program) In June 2024, Wharton Global Youth welcomed Wharton’s Exequiel “Zeke” Hernandez to their cross-program lecture series for high school students studying on campus.…Read More
