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03-15-2010, 06:32 PM #1
Propaganda: Why Immigration Boosts Wages
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/234882
Why Immigration Boosts Wages—and Not Just In California
By Tony Dokoupil | NEWSWEEK
Published Mar 12, 2010
From the magazine issue dated Mar 22, 2010
As the white house revives immigration reform—an issue the president is discussing with congressional leaders—it may want to ponder the effects of curbing foreign labor. While immigrants are blamed for dragging down American wages and stealing jobs, University of California, Davis, economist Giovanni Peri comes to a different conclusion. In a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Peri trowels through nearly five decades of immigration data and finds that foreign workers have boosted the economy, jacking up average income without crowding out American laborers. For each percentage of the workforce that is foreign-born, he found an almost 0.5 percent bump in average wages. In California, where the percentage of immigrants in the workforce has jumped more than 25 points since 1960, that means an almost 13 percent bonus—roughly $8,000. Immigrants, Peri says, push native-born workers into better-paying positions, expanding the size of the job pie so unskilled Americans aren't left out.
What's obvious to an economist, however, is hard to translate into politics. The most popular stances on immigration involve citizenship for illegals already here and border security to shut out everyone else. Less likely to land votes: a guest-worker program that brings in labor to meet demand and keep wages afloat. But without such a program, says Peri, "the U.S. is essentially giving up on gains."
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[The above article reminded me of something I saw on wikipedia a while ago. Are the big media guns banking on a blatant disregard for any sense of logic ot fact?]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie
The Big Lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf for a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". [e.g., "Immigrants increase wages", and the strangest. most bizarre lie of all "guest worker programs keep wages 'afloat' ?!?"]
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03-15-2010, 06:50 PM #2
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Are hallucinogens again becoming popular at UC, as decreasing demand due to customers losing their shirts is now also pressured by an increasing supply of workers. With hundreds of applicants for one job, an employer will take the fiscally responsible option. If applicant A demands $18 an hour, while applicant B will accept $8 an hour for the same job, there will be no debate who gets the job. What is so hard to understand about that?
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