Sunday, August 22, 2010
Does Immigration Cost Jobs?
Study after study has shown that immigrants grow the economy, expanding demand for goods and services that the foreign-born workers and their families consume, and thereby creating jobs. There is even broad agreement among economists that while immigrants may push down wages for some, the overall effect is to increase average wages for American-born workers.
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Here's a link t the entire story on this baloney sandwich!
ReplyDeletehttp://factcheck.org/2010/05/does-immigration-cost-jobs/
The truth is that immigrants don’t "take American jobs," according to most economists and others who have studied the issue.
ReplyDeleteJobs and Unemployment? According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The nation’s unemployment rate has been above 9 percent for 15 months, going back to May 2009. In March and April 2009, the unemployment rate was close to 9 percent.
ReplyDeleteBefore the most recent 15-month streak, there was a 19-month stretch from March 1982 to September 1983, when the unemployment rate was 9 percent or higher. And during the Great Depression, the annual unemployment rate was 9 percent or more for 11 consecutive years from 1931 to 1941. (BLS only has month-by-month unemployment rates going back to 1948.) The annual unemployment rate was actually 20 percent or more for each year from 1932 to 1935.