Dawn Ippolito
Filmmaker with a passion for cultures, education, poverty elimination, and social justice. And to pay the bills, I shoot adventure videos and photography
The dollar amount of state income that refugees create compared to the dollar amount spent on their resettlement
How to Speak Like You Understand Refugee Resettlement
Dawn Ippolito
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The only example I knew about off-hand: By Tennessee’s best calculations, between 1990 and 2012, the state spent $753 million dollars on refugees and their descendants while making $1.4 billion in state revenue from refugees. http://www.hias.org/sites/default/files/tn_report_federalcostshifting_refugeeresettlement.pdf