(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
(Outlet: Next Big Idea Club) Zeke Hernandez, Political Risk & Identity Lab Faculty Co-Lead, shares five key insights from his new book, The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers.…Read More
(Outlet: Marketplace) The dust is starting to settle from the global stock market sell-off Monday. One development that helped spark fear among investors was the increase in the U.S. unemployment rate, which ticked up to 4.3% in July from 4.1% in June. A rising jobless rate is not, on the face of it, usually a good thing. But this time, the reasons might not be so bad.…Read More
(Outlet: The Pennsylvania Gazette) Wharton’s Zeke Hernandez hopes to bend the immigration debate toward a question rooted in his own research on capital investment and business formation: What do natives stand to gain?…Read More
(Outlet: Marketplace) Zeke Hernandez is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He’s also author of the new book “The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers.” He spoke with “Marketplace Morning Report” host Sabri Ben-Achour. …Read More
(Outlet: Forbes) The author of a new book finds immigrants are not villains or victims but people who strive to better their lives and contribute to a vibrant society. The book comes at a time when immigration ranks among the country’s most contentious issues. Stuart Anderson, Senior Contributor at Forbes, interviews economist Zeke Hernandez. …Read More
(Outlet: MSNBC) In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the National Origins Act – a restrictive immigration bill that had lasting negative economic and social consequences. 100 years later, we find ourselves having a similar rhetorical and ideological debate about immigration. Donald Trump and his allies are stoking anti-immigrant sentiment and pushing the idea that immigration is the reason the United States is a “nation in decline”. Wharton School Professor and author Zeke Emanuel Hernandez points out to Ali Velshi that it’s in America’s best interest, socially and economically, to embrace immigrants. …Read More
(Outlet: The Hill) 100 years ago today, America committed its biggest immigration blunder when President Calvin Coolidge signed the National Origins Act. As we commemorate the anniversary, most of the conversation focuses on condemning the racist motivation of excluding Asians and Southern and Eastern Europeans. But almost nobody talks about two things. One is the self-harm the restrictions caused to America: significant job losses, obliterating innovation by American scientists and companies, lowering investment across our communities and giving rise to the border problems we still experience to this day, writes Zeke Hernandez.…Read More
(Outlet: Delco Daily Times) The League of Women Voters of Central Delaware County took on the issue of immigration on Friday as experts delved into the numbers and issues behind what drives immigrants to the United States. “We’re in a very important moment in the history of immigration in the United States,” Exequiel “Zeke” Hernandez, one of the presenters, said. “There’s a widespread misunderstanding about just very basic facts about who immigrants are and what they do.”…Read More
