Does Immigration Harm Working Americans?
Experience suggests that increased immigration has hurt middle-class workers, even as it has provided economic benefits to the well-to-do.
The job news is increasingly good: 321,000 jobs created in November. Yet the national economic mood remains grimly bleak.
Many Americans feel a sharp distinction between what’s said about “the” economy and what they experience in “their” economy. At the top of the income distribution, wages are rising. In the middle and bottom, wages stagnate. Jobs are created, yes—but native-born Americans are not hired for them.
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