Voting Question: What do you think about a new study saying that immigrants don't take away jobs from Americans?

1 September 2010, 12:53 pm

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-30/immigrants-don-t-take-jobs-away-from-americans-fed-study-finds.html “There is no evidence that immigrants crowd out U.S.-born workers in either the short or long run,” Giovanni Peri, an associate professor at the University of California-Davis and a visiting scholar at the San Francisco Fed, said in the paper released today. “Data show that, on net, immigrants expand the U.S. economy’s productive capacity, stimulate investment, and promote specialization that in the long run boosts productivity.” I was expecting some crass remark about the researcher's name. I must be psychic or something.... Read More »

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