The City of Denver is piloting a new program designed to integrate asylum seekers into the workforce faster. The program, which started on April 10, 2024, offers six months of rent-free housing along with legal assistance, food aid and workforce training. Only asylum-seekers who were already living in Denver when the program launched are eligible.
Juntos Center volunteer Nina Frias, with back to camera, works with Venezuelan migrants Willians Caldera, his wife Alejandra Guerrero and their son Thiago, 6, right, to help them begin the work permitting process at a local hotel in Denver on Feb. 5, 2024.
So is this expenditure worth it? One way to assess that is to look at an economist’s tool set called a cost-benefit analysis. I teach this tool set as a professor of economics at Colorado State University. Such an analysis considers broad benefits and costs of a program like Denver’s compared with maintaining the status quo or “doing nothing.”Volunteer Joel Duran, left, helps Venezuelan migrants begin the work permitting process at a local hotel in Denver on Feb. 5, 2024.
The program allowed Denver to trim $15 million per quarter from its previously projected budget, but the city will still spend $90 million in migrant services in 2024, including the costs of the Denver Asylum Seekers Program.Denver currently has more than 10,000 people experiencing homelessness, so one motivation for the new program is to keep these migrants off the streets.
Workforce training will benefit not only the migrants themselves, but also their dependent family members and local economies. Recently published statistics show that, so getting migrant parents to work will minimize costs to programs that support children like public welfare services.Research suggests that supporting migrants will also promote local economic development.
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