Fola Akinnibi

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Municipal Finance Reporter at Bloomberg CityLab

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Paying Workers to Move Reaps 4-to-1 Benefits, Study Finds (1)

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Rthvika Suvarna |Fola Akinnibi

When Kagan Conaway saw an Instagram ad offering remote workers $10,000 to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma, she thought it was a scam. The Indiana native had just returned to her home state after living in Wisconsin and was looking for a change. She’d never even been to Oklahoma. Conaway, 25, was accepted into Tulsa’s program and moved in July 2024 after a visit. “I fell in love with the city after just a few days,” she said.
Paying Workers to Move Reaps 4-to-1 Benefits, Study Finds (1)

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Rthvika Suvarna |Fola Akinnibi

When Kagan Conaway saw an Instagram ad offering remote workers $10,000 to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma, she thought it was a scam. The Indiana native had just returned to her home state after living in Wisconsin and was looking for a change. She’d never even been to Oklahoma. Conaway, 25, was accepted into Tulsa’s program and moved in July 2024 after a visit. “I fell in love with the city after just a few days,” she said.
Paying Workers to Move Reaps 4-to-1 Benefits, Study Finds

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Rthvika Suvarna |Fola Akinnibi

When Kagan Conaway saw an Instagram ad offering remote workers $10,000 to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma, she thought it was a scam. The Indiana native had just returned to her home state after living in Wisconsin and was looking for a change. She’d never even been to Oklahoma. Conaway, 25, was accepted into Tulsa’s program and moved in July 2024 after a visit. “I fell in love with the city after just a few days,” she said.
Paying Workers to Move Reaps 4-to-1 Benefits, Study Finds

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Rthvika Suvarna |Fola Akinnibi

When Kagan Conaway saw an Instagram ad offering remote workers $10,000 to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma, she thought it was a scam. The Indiana native had just returned to her home state after living in Wisconsin and was looking for a change. She’d never even been to Oklahoma. Conaway, 25, was accepted into Tulsa’s program and moved in July 2024 after a visit. “I fell in love with the city after just a few days,” she said.
The Economic Benefits of Paying Workers to Move

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Rthvika Suvarna |Fola Akinnibi

Centennial Park in downtown Tulsa. (Bloomberg) -- When Kagan Conaway saw an Instagram ad offering remote workers $10,000 to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma, she thought it was a scam. The Indiana native had just returned to her home state after living in Wisconsin and was looking for a change. She’d never even been to Oklahoma. Conaway, 25, was accepted into Tulsa’s program and moved in July 2024 after a visit. “I fell in love with the city after just a few days,” she said.
Trump Immigration Crackdown Hinges on Private Prisons: CityLab Daily

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Fola Akinnibi |Rthvika Suvarna

Also today: East Harlem gets a new Central Park facility, and Newsom urges California cities to ban homeless camps. Federal officers arrested Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka at an immigration detention center in his city on Friday for alleged trespassing, before releasing him later that evening. Baraka has been vehemently opposed to the opening of Delaney Hall, a new 1,000-bed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Newark.
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hinges on Small Towns Hooked on Private Prisons

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Rachel Adams-Heard |Polly Mosendz |Fola Akinnibi

Like a growing number of US communities, Torrance County, New Mexico, is convinced its financial survival depends on locking up immigrants. The sun is still beating down on the scrubby New Mexico dirt when an army-green bus pulls into the parking lot of the Torrance County Detention Facility in the small town of Estancia. Behind barred windows, the silhouettes of dozens of men are just visible. Many of them have never been to New Mexico before.
Lawsuit Challenges Federal Policy on Migrant Children

4 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Fola Akinnibi

Advocacy organizations are suing the Trump administration over policies that govern the release of unaccompanied immigrant children, arguing that the new rules keep minors in federal custody and away from family. The complaint was filed Thursday by the National Center for Youth Law and Democracy Forward on behalf of unaccompanied children currently held by the federal government. It seeks to stop new policies that have prolonged the time these children spend in federal custody.
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Policy on Migrant Children

4 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Fola Akinnibi

A migrant child seeking asylum waits to be processed by US Border Patrol agents after crossing the border in Yuma, Arizona. (Bloomberg) -- Advocacy organizations are suing the Trump administration over policies that govern the release of unaccompanied immigrant children, arguing that the new rules keep minors in federal custody and away from family.
What Are Ghost Guns? What Did the Supreme Court Rule?: QuickTake

2 months ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Fola Akinnibi

The US Supreme Court on March 26 upheld the federal regulation of built-at-home “ghost gun” kits, backing a rule put in place during the Biden administration to stem what officials said was a torrent of untraceable weapons. The 7-2 decision keeps in force a 2022 rule that subjects commercially sold gun kits to the same constraints as fully assembled firearms, requiring that the devices be stamped with serial numbers and that buyers undergo background checks.