The Problem With Spain's Plan to Pay Migrants to Go Home

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The Problem With Spain's Plan to Pay Migrants to Go Home "It's been over two years since Spain enacted its Voluntary Return Plan for immigrants, which grants legal residents who lose their jobs the right to receive their entire unemployment benefit in two lump sums — one upon departure, and the second after arriving in their country of origin. By now, some 17,000 documented migrants from the U.S., Eastern Europe, and Africa have signed on to the plan, part of a successful effort, says the government, to reduce the pressure on the Spanish economy and spark development in other parts of the world. Yet because that number falls far short of the government's own predictions of 87,000 when the program launched in 2008, some immigrant organizations have labeled it a failure"

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