The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has issued a new report extolling the economic benefits of illegal immigration. It asserts that, “Unauthorized immigrants are good for state…
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Misleading Report from Economic Policy Institute
Have the Elite in America Lost Touch with Reality?
Americans are hurting right now. Some 20 million people are unemployed, or under-employed. Millions more have just given up and dropped out of the labor market.…
Greenspan Applies Supply and Demand to Immigration’s Impact on Wages
Writing in National Review, Heather Mac Donald notes Alan Greenspan’s comment to the National Association of Business Economics on February 25 that “You don’t have to…
We Can’t Have Americans (Literally) Driving Down Immigrant Wages
An open borders supporter would tell you there’s nothing so American as labor market competition driving down wages, unless you are discussing the taxi industry. Then,…
Plunging Wages for Low-Wage Workers
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has come out with a study that demonstrates how the inflation adjusted earnings of low wage workers (defined as “wage-earners at…