The Chamber wants more low skilled labor.
For what? To landscape their lawns, wash their cars, baby sit their kids?
Low skilled labor means low paid labor. Low paid labor means welfare supplements. Why do we need more welfare recipients?
Where is the logic in paying low skilled Americans NOT to work, then demanding more low skilled workers from other countries? Are foreigners better workers? If so, why?
We already have plenty of low skilled labor: young people & welfare kings/queens. The kids need the work experience & the lazy people can either work or starve.
Aides taking care of grandma in the nursing home.
I feel very sorry for old people being looked after by Caribbean immigrants. Even if the aides are good people, they are from another culture, have accents that are difficult to understand, faces that are different.
It’s physically demanding, emotionally difficult work, that requires compassionate and trustworthy people who we trust our vulnerable parents and grandparents too. It pays at most a subsistence living, and the government and the nursing home corporations want to drive it lower yet.