South Carolinian wages depressed by immigration

Posted By Patrick Cleburne On 5 September 2007 @ 12:03 am
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/09/05/3258/print/

In an unusually fine piece of incisive reporting, Noelle Phillips of South Carolina’s The State newspaper got right to the point:

Study links Hispanics, pay drop Posted on Fri, Aug. 31, 2007

[i][color=darkred]As South Carolina’s Hispanic population has grown, wages for all workers have dropped, a USC study released Thursday found.
While study authors were careful not to pin all the blame on immigrants, their findings were similar to other research done elsewhere, including Harvard University.
S.C. median annual wages, adjusted for inflation, dropped 3.1 percent to $28,039 between 2000 and 2005 when the state experienced rapid growth in its Hispanic population.
Pay in construction, the dominant field for Hispanics, slipped 5 percent for all S.C. workers during what was a record housing boom. Hispanic construction wages fell by more than twice that.
“When an industry is booming like this, you expect to see wages increase, not decline like this,â€