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A recent study found that immigration reform is capable of reviving the nation's struggling economy.

With a comprehensive reform model, the report shows that alternative immigration policies could "yield at least $1.5 trillion in added U.S. gross domestic product over 10 years."

By legalizing unauthorized workers and basing immigration limits on the U.S. labor demand, comprehensive reform would "raise the 'wage floor' for the entire U.S. economy - to the benefit of both immigrant and native-born workers," according to "Raising the Floor for American Workers: The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform," conducted by UCLA professor Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda and released through the Center for American Progress and the Immigration Policy Center.

Census outreach programs around the country, including those in Tucson, are trying to figure out the best way to persuade people trying to stay off the government’s radar to participate in the upcoming 2010 U.S. Census.

The Hispanic population in the United States has historically been difficult to tally because of common misconceptions about how the government uses the collected data, said Magdalena Barajas, a partnership specialist for the U.S. Census Bureau working in Tucson. Partnership programs work on a local level to inform people the census is fast and safe.

Barajas said that places with large minority populations, including Hispanic communities, are hard to count.