Steven A. Camarota is Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in public policy analysis, and a Masters degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. In recent years he has testified before Congress more than any other non-government expert on the economic and fiscal impact of immigration. He is currently under contract with the Census Bureau as the lead researcher on a project examining the quality of immigrant data in the American Community Survey.
His articles on the impact of immigration have appeared in both academic journals and the popular press including Social Science Quarterly, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and National Review. He also appears frequently on radio and televison news programs including CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel,NBC Nightly News, and ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, National Public Radio, and the Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Some of his most recent works published by the Center for Immigration Studies are 100 Million More: Projecting the Impact of Immigration On the U.S. Population, 2007 to 2060, Illegitimate Nation: An Examination of Out-of-Wedlock Births Among Immigrants and Natives, The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, Back Where We Started: An Examination of Trends in Immigrant Welfare Use Since Welfare Reform, Dropping Out: Immigrant Entry and Native Exit From The Labor Market 2000-2005, Immigrants at Mid-Decades: A Snapshot of American’s Foreign-Born Population in 2005, Births to Immigrants in America: 1970 to 2002, and Immigration in an Aging Society: Workers, Birth Rates, and Social Security.