{"id":4515,"date":"2013-09-01T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:40:36","slug":"explain-to-me-again-why-we-need-more-unskilled-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/09\/01\/explain-to-me-again-why-we-need-more-unskilled-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain to Me Again Why We Need More Unskilled Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"
There can be little doubt that the elite media constitute a cheering squad for amnesty and mass immigration. But one outlet in particular, National Public Radio \u2013 perhaps the ne plus ultra of these pro-amnesty elites \u2013 can\u2019t seem to get out of its own way. A month ago, NPR reporting<\/a> on the dismal July unemployment numbers noted that \u201cthere [are]essentially too many people looking for work,\u201d and that we have a long-term \u201coversupply of labor.\u201d<\/p>\n NPR ended August where they began, by torpedoing the labor shortage justification for amnesty and more immigration \u2013 especially low-skilled immigration. Reporting on a nationwide effort to demand $15 an hour wages for fast food workers, Chris Arnold interviewed Kyle King, a 40-something Burger King employee in Boston, who started out at $8 an hour nine years ago and now rakes in $8.15 an hour. An average annual pay raise of 1.66 cents<\/i> per hour ought to be a clue that we\u2019re not in any danger of running out of burger flippers.<\/p>\n And it is not just fast food workers that the free market is telling us there is an ample supply. As Lawrence Katz, a Harvard labor economists, notes in the report, \u201c80 percent of U.S. workers have not seen much of a raised in the 2000s.\u201d<\/p>\n But NPR is not the only elite media outlet stepping all over the low-skill labor shortage justification for immigration increases. John Carney, a senior editor at CNBC, which specializes in reporting on business and economics, argues that the business lobby\u2019s implausible claim that flooding the labor market with low-skilled immigrants is beneficial to low-skilled native workers is just that: implausible.<\/p>\n