Immigration and refugees
03-04-2017
, 05:14 PM
03-04-2017
, 05:18 PM
03-04-2017
, 09:44 PM
The Hard Truth About Lost Jobs: It's Not About Immigration
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-...eather-mcgowan
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-...eather-mcgowan
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Few topics spike the ire of American voters like jobs, immigration, and trade, no doubt because the three are inexorably tied together, at least in the rhetoric of politicians who point to immigration and trade as the villains of the American jobs story.
This narrative was clearly in evidence during the presidential campaign, as candidates in nearly every race made admirable pledges to “bring back jobs” through any number of means: reducing immigration by building a wall on our “southern border”, tearing up trade deals, punishing companies that relocate jobs outside of the US, and/or rounding up and deporting undocumented workers. That political rhetoric has spilled into the post-election zeitgeist in the comment sections of online media, like our Immigration, We Simply Cannot Afford This post that examined the economic contribution of legal immigration over the last half century. The comments section was a river of outrage over illegal immigration and trade, even though neither topic was the focus of the piece. Still, the post hit a cord and has reached over 475,000 views.
It’s no wonder. Jobs -- the lack of them, generally, and the lack of good-paying ones, particularly -- is a hot button for many Americans who are suffering from stagnant wages or worse, up-ended careers. While immigrants and trade may be convenient whipping boys (why else would politicians lite on them so readily?), the preponderance of evidence suggests that it is automation, not immigration, that is eating American jobs.
The idea that we can “bring back jobs” by renegotiating trade deals to restore lost manufacturing jobs is simply wrong. Still, the concept is appealing. It evokes images of an anthropomorphized state sneaking into the United States under cover of night, packing crates full of jobs onto cargo planes, and shipping them off to some unfamiliar land where they will toil in darkness until the bold politician sends a rescue mission to liberate and “bring them home.” It makes for stirring campaign rhetoric, particularly to the un- and under-employed voter. Unfortunately, it is a tug of war with the past. Some of those mostly vulnerable, sadly, understand it the least.
This narrative was clearly in evidence during the presidential campaign, as candidates in nearly every race made admirable pledges to “bring back jobs” through any number of means: reducing immigration by building a wall on our “southern border”, tearing up trade deals, punishing companies that relocate jobs outside of the US, and/or rounding up and deporting undocumented workers. That political rhetoric has spilled into the post-election zeitgeist in the comment sections of online media, like our Immigration, We Simply Cannot Afford This post that examined the economic contribution of legal immigration over the last half century. The comments section was a river of outrage over illegal immigration and trade, even though neither topic was the focus of the piece. Still, the post hit a cord and has reached over 475,000 views.
It’s no wonder. Jobs -- the lack of them, generally, and the lack of good-paying ones, particularly -- is a hot button for many Americans who are suffering from stagnant wages or worse, up-ended careers. While immigrants and trade may be convenient whipping boys (why else would politicians lite on them so readily?), the preponderance of evidence suggests that it is automation, not immigration, that is eating American jobs.
The idea that we can “bring back jobs” by renegotiating trade deals to restore lost manufacturing jobs is simply wrong. Still, the concept is appealing. It evokes images of an anthropomorphized state sneaking into the United States under cover of night, packing crates full of jobs onto cargo planes, and shipping them off to some unfamiliar land where they will toil in darkness until the bold politician sends a rescue mission to liberate and “bring them home.” It makes for stirring campaign rhetoric, particularly to the un- and under-employed voter. Unfortunately, it is a tug of war with the past. Some of those mostly vulnerable, sadly, understand it the least.
03-05-2017
, 08:55 AM
LOL @ undocumenteds pay "estimated" 11.64B to taxes and 13B to SS... How about the actual $583B that is taken out of the US economy by immigrants overall? Which likely eclypses any revenue in taxes generated by all these many businesses immigrants open by a huge margin as well....
http://labs.time.com/story/where-imm...st-money-home/
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... immigrants sent $583 billion back to their home countries in 2014
Also, I think we have plenty of off named gas stations, convenience stores, palm readers, nail salons, dry cleaners and inner city/privately owned dollar stores now
Last edited by NoQuarter; 03-05-2017 at 09:01 AM.
03-05-2017
, 09:40 AM
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LOL @ undocumenteds pay "estimated" 11.64B to taxes and 13B to SS... How about the actual $583B that is taken out of the US economy by immigrants overall? Which likely eclypses any revenue in taxes generated by all these many businesses immigrants open by a huge margin as well....
http://labs.time.com/story/where-imm...st-money-home/
http://labs.time.com/story/where-imm...st-money-home/
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Across the globe, immigrants sent $583 billion back to their home countries in 2014, with $440 billion of that going to developing countries.
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While Trump’s plan to confiscate the remittances of undocumented workers may be impractical—not to mention controversial—global remittances provide an interesting look at how immigrants in the U.S. and beyond are lifting people from their own countries out of poverty by sending money home. The practice is most prevalent in Tajikistan, which receives about 40 percent of its national GDP in the form of remittances.
03-05-2017
, 12:09 PM
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, 12:12 PM
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, 04:37 PM
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, 08:59 AM
