Study: E-Verify works, legal employment up in states

States that have enacted the federal E-Verify program to make sure job applicants are legally allowed to work in the United States have seen a drop in unemployment rates as out-of-work Americans have returned to the workforce, according to a new study.

In the more than a dozen states that have added or expanded on the E-Verify program since 2008 have seen an economic revival based in part on lower unemployment, and virtually all have experienced a drop in unemployment better than the national average, according the report from Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR.