{"id":298516,"date":"2026-10-02T18:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298516\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:26:06","slug":"the-welcoming-center-whyy-explore-immigrations-impact-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298516\/","title":{"rendered":"The Welcoming Center, WHYY explore immigration\u2019s impact in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Welcoming Center and WHYY are <a href=\"https:\/\/support.whyy.org\/page\/101291\/event\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">co-hosting an event<\/a> next week focused on a new report that explores immigration\u2019s impact on the economy and investment throughout the Philadelphia region.\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/immigration-report-2025-greater-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the second<\/a> edition of the study on immigration in the region by The Welcoming Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that promotes immigration through economic integration.\n<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/immigration-report-2025-greater-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year\u2019s study<\/a>, the center found that immigrants in Philadelphia and its four surrounding Pennsylvania counties have sparked economic growth and stemmed population loss over the past decade-plus.\n  <\/p>\n<p>The in-person event will be held at WHYY on Tuesday, Oct. 6, from 9 to 11 a.m. Anuj Gupta, president and CEO of The Welcoming Center, will present findings from the report, including data on entrepreneurship, homeownership, investment, education, employment and more.\n<\/p>\n<p>WHYY\u2019s Cherri Gregg will moderate a panel discussion with Nicole Marcote, director of small business resource units at Philadelphia\u2019s Department of Commerce; Saloni Tandon, director of research and analytics at the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia; and Zeke Hernandez, Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Professor at University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School of Business.\n<\/p>\n<p>Registration is free and <a href=\"https:\/\/support.whyy.org\/page\/101291\/event\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available online<\/a>.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-298516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}