This storytelling guide, authored by forcibly displaced individuals and curated by the Refugee Advocacy Lab in partnership with the Refugee Congress and Storytellers Collective, provides a framework for crafting authentic, empowering narratives that advance inclusion and advocacy. It offers six storytelling “building blocks” emphasizing shared values, contextual details, resilience, diversity of experiences, and calls to action. The document includes a self-care section for storytellers and a practical workbook to help participants frame their stories around empathy, shared humanity, and economic and social contribution. Rooted in participatory design, the guide serves as both a communication toolkit and a movement-building resource for refugee leaders to humanize public discourse and mobilize allies across faith, policy, and community sectors.

This guide, co-published by the Refugee Advocacy Lab and Refugee Congress, presents actionable recommendations from refugee leaders on how to communicate the economic impact of forcibly displaced people while maintaining a rights-based framing. It emphasizes that refugees strengthen the U.S. economy by filling workforce shortages, paying taxes, and contributing entrepreneurial energy across industries from healthcare to manufacturing. At the same time, it cautions advocates to balance economic narratives with messages of dignity, safety, and human rights. Featuring real-world stories and best practices, the guide encourages using data from trusted partners such as the American Immigration Council and Upwardly Global to convey refugees’ fiscal success and underutilized talent. The publication provides seven best practices for advocates, policymakers, and employers, stressing that refugees are not only economic assets but also engaged constituents and neighbors shaping the social and civic fabric of the nation.

This 2022 guide from Refugee Congress, developed in collaboration with the Refugee Advocacy Lab and CWS, outlines ten practical principles for engaging meaningfully and ethically with refugee leaders in advocacy, media, and policymaking spaces. The document emphasizes early inclusion, respect for boundaries, informed consent, trauma-aware communication, and equitable compensation. It urges organizations to shift from tokenistic inclusion toward sustained partnership by hiring, training, and empowering leaders with lived experience of displacement. Each best practice promotes leadership development, accessibility, and the creation of safe, inclusive environments for storytelling and advocacy. The guide serves as a foundational reference for practitioners and policymakers aiming to center refugee leadership and ensure collaboration is rooted in dignity, equity, and long-term capacity building.

This KFF analysis uses the 2018–2023 American Community Survey (ACS) data to quantify immigrants’ role in the U.S. long-term care (LTC) direct care workforce. The article finds that immigrants make up 28% of all LTC direct care workers as of 2023, including 32% in home care, 21% in nursing facilities, and 24% in residential settings. The immigrant share rose from 24% in 2018 to 28% in 2023. Nearly all immigrant nurses are naturalized citizens, though noncitizen immigrants are more common in aide roles. The piece argues that reducing immigration or increased removals would exacerbate existing workforce shortages in LTC, particularly in home and residential care settings where demand is growing.

FWD.us estimates that new and proposed U.S. immigration policies—such as mass deportations, the cancellation of work permits for TPS, DACA, and paroled individuals, and severe cuts to legal immigration—would cause American families to pay about $2,150 more annually by 2028 for goods and services. The analysis projects price increases of 14.5% in food, 6.1% in construction, and 3.9% in hospitality, driven by the removal or exclusion of over 4 million immigrant workers from the labor force. The report warns that these changes would exacerbate inflation, worsen housing shortages, and harm middle- and working-class Americans while undermining U.S. economic stability.

The “Losing Status” tracker by FWD.us estimates and tracks how new policies that revoke legal protections and work authorizations for immigrants will affect the U.S. workforce and economy. The tool provides real-time data on the number of people losing status, the sectors in which they work, and projected economic consequences of removing them from the labor market.

This report from FWD.us estimates the economic and social benefits of maintaining and expanding the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. It shows how TPS holders fill labor gaps in sectors facing persistent shortages, contribute in higher-skilled and lower-skilled roles, and pay taxes while stabilizing families. The analysis underscores how revoking or failing to renew TPS protections would not only harm immigrant communities but also exacerbate workforce shortages and economic volatility in the U.S. economy.