Posted on 07/21/2017 1:35:07 PM PDT by Rockitz
A report released by a media firm backed by left-wing financier George Soros admits that low-skilled immigration hurts America’s middle and working-class. ProPublica, backed by Soros, released a report where they not only confirmed President Trump’s argument that immigration should be merit-based to help Americans, but also conceded that the last four decades of low-skilled immigration has hurt U.S. workers:
"Of course, the question of how immigration impacts GDP is a small slice of a much broader question of how immigrants and immigration policies affect our economy. Steven Camarota, the director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, points out that a key question in any hypothetical scenario is whether the native born population is better off. A massive increase in immigrants may add to the size of the U.S. economy, but that doesn’t necessarily make things better for the people already here.
Increased immigration has differing effects depending on education and industry. The National Academies report suggests that some low-skilled workers (such as high school dropouts) who compete with low-skilled immigrants will lose wages and income even as business owners and investors profit from the overall growth in the economy. As Harvard economist George Borjas explains, the people who compete with immigrants are losing out to the people who employ immigrants.
Those nuances are often hidden in the overall employment numbers. According to Rutger’s Hunt, when economists talk about the effect of immigration on jobs, they ask whether the employment rate for natives has fallen or risen. And from a national perspective, there is broad agreement that increased immigration does not meaningfully change overall employment rates. But those numbers don’t capture people who are forced to change jobs, for example American workers who share job qualifications with immigrant workers and might be forced to move to lower-paying jobs."
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What a revelation! The law of supply and demand also applies to low skilled labor, and all labor for that matter. That was taught in my combo ninth grade, Civics/Economics class.
But the RAT party wants to hurt the American worker, so that are more dependent on the gubmint.
All it shows is that they know the truth and just don’t care.
No, what it shows is they dont care the truth comes out because they are not afraid anyone will/can reverse course.
If these people were such a boon to the national economy and such valuable workers, then why weren’t they a boon to the countries they came from?
If the liberals are such big fans of other cultures, then why are they stealing these marvels of productivity and good citizenship from countries that need them?
Yupp! Those poor other countries.
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