Immigration reform resulting in net population growth and an increase in employment-based immigration would likely have wide-reaching economic benefits, and would provide a boost to the housing sector. Understanding how increased immigration benefits housing is quite straightforward; increased population growth leads to a greater demand for housing that would aid a still recovering residential construction industry.

Overtime work is a mainstay of the U.S. economy and provides valuable flexibility for firms.[1] Unfortunately, the flexibility is not balanced.  Federal law dictates that workers must receive more monetary payment (“time and one-half”) for overtime, but may not choose to be compensated by time off (of the same value, “time and one-half”) when they need it.  The law should be changed so that workers can manage the hours in their lives more flexibly, just as employers can use overtime for the same purpose.