Donald Trump Dislikes Minorities. Well, No Wonder....

[nuhuh]

"They have got to go. That about sums up the immigration ideas laid out by Donald Trump on Sunday's "Meet the Press," and in an accompanying 1,900-word policy paper. After making opposition to illegal immigration a cornerstone of his circus-like presidential campaign, The Donald has finally ventured into specifics with an immigration policy plan centered on increased border security and immigration enforcement.

While it is a good sign that Trump has ventured into actual policy proposals, his ideas are impractical at best and at worst inhumane. His ideas veer far to the right of the American mainstream. Far from stabilizing our economy, his plans could well stunt our economic growth.

Consider: Trump wants to build a wall all across our southern border with Mexico. To those for whom fighting illegal immigration is a top priority, this might sound like a smart, common-sense plan. But this line of thinking ignores reality. The border is more secure than it has been in years; an analysis this year by The Washington Post found that illegal crossings along the Mexican border were at their lowest level in two decades.

Meanwhile, our country's population of undocumented immigrants has dropped by about 1 million over the last several years, according to the Pew Research Center. We don't need that wall; what we do need is smarter immigration enforcement.

Trump says that his administration would force the Mexican government to pay for this wall. With all due respect, such an idea is laughable. A spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, when told of Trump's plan to have Mexico foot the bill for a wall between our two countries, told Bloomberg News, "It reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who's saying it." He's right on both counts.

To force Mexico to pay for this wall, Trump says he would impose import tariffs for its construction. Imagine how disruptive it would be if "President Trump" were to enter into an all-out economic battle with one of our top three trade partners, whose imports to the U.S. in 2014 totalled $294 billion.

The most troubling part of Trump's immigration plan is that he has, in effect, endorsed mass deportations of the undocumented. "We're going to keep the families together, but they have to go," he said on "Meet the Press." Think about what this would mean: Our undocumented population is estimated at about 11 million, roughly equivalent to the population of Ohio.

Think of the tremendous economic upheaval, human suffering and community destabilization that would occur if our government were to round up and remove 11 million people. Such an idea is staggering in its lack of compassion, especially since a reported 62%of the undocumented have lived here for at least a decade, most as productive members of their American communities.
More at the link "Donald Trump's clueless immigration plan - CNN.com

Yes they sure as hell do need to know.

The Big Picture
While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.

By the numbers:

• In January 2014, there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
• Of that number, 216,197 are people in families, and
• 362,163 are individuals.
• About 15 percent of the homeless population – 84,291 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals, and
• About 9 percent of homeless people- 49,933 - are veterans.

These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.
Don't Forget the Kinda Unemployed


At its height, underemployment hit 17.2 percent, which means that more than one in six Americans had less work than they wanted. Although underemployment has steadily declined since, the pace has been slow. As of October, it’s 11.5 percent — a ignominious milestone that marks the first time since 2008 that underemployment dropped below its previous record high, set in 1994 (which is when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of this measure).

As it stands today, 17.7 million Americans are underemployed — double the number of officially unemployed. While the labor market has recovered to the point where unemployment is nearing pre-recession territory, marginal attachment remains elevated by 61 percent, and involuntary part-timing by 64 percent.

Snapshot of Homelessness

A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage


Do you understand?

No, and I think his solution is repulsive.

"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."

Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.

Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism. If you can focus on racism then you can keep the wages low and you don't have to deal with the situation. You are not liberal. You are conservative dressed up as liberal.

Lemme guess.

Your solution to homelessness is cut taxes on the wealthy, deregulate, and the magical free market work it's wonders.

why is homelessness reaching epic levels under the most Progressive NYC Mayor in decades?


hmmmm?????

Why didn't tax cuts fix it?

 

[bedowin62]

Are you saying beng a Muslim is a bad thing nutjob? you appear to be. obama DOES appeary to be a closet Muslim based on his OWN actions dummy; not his father's..... and especially by his INACTIONS regarding the wholesale slaughter of Christians in the Middle East and his lack of commentary on that.

Deflect all you like, let your heart sing. Trump needs to answer some questions about his involvement in racial discrimination as a senior member of his father's company in the 1970's. That should be easy to do, right?

HOW AM I DEFLECTING leftard?
YOU'RE deflecting. i'm saying people dont accuse obama of being a Muslim based on aning h is Daddy did; but based on ACTIONS AND STATEMENTS.

fail; try again.............

It's about Trump not about Obama. Hop back on your tricycle we'll get you to ride this thing yet.

i was responding specifically to the point being made, by YOU, IDIOT, that it is ok because of what Republicans said about obama

try again you moron!
lol

That issue has already been argued and tossed. If you have anything to add about Donald Trump's life in racism I'd be interested to hear it.

.............................and you already lost

thanks for playing though

 

[bedowin62]

The Big Picture
While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.

By the numbers:

• In January 2014, there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
• Of that number, 216,197 are people in families, and
• 362,163 are individuals.
• About 15 percent of the homeless population – 84,291 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals, and
• About 9 percent of homeless people- 49,933 - are veterans.

These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.
Don't Forget the Kinda Unemployed


At its height, underemployment hit 17.2 percent, which means that more than one in six Americans had less work than they wanted. Although underemployment has steadily declined since, the pace has been slow. As of October, it’s 11.5 percent — a ignominious milestone that marks the first time since 2008 that underemployment dropped below its previous record high, set in 1994 (which is when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of this measure).

As it stands today, 17.7 million Americans are underemployed — double the number of officially unemployed. While the labor market has recovered to the point where unemployment is nearing pre-recession territory, marginal attachment remains elevated by 61 percent, and involuntary part-timing by 64 percent.

Snapshot of Homelessness

A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage


Do you understand?

No, and I think his solution is repulsive.

"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."

Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.

Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism. If you can focus on racism then you can keep the wages low and you don't have to deal with the situation. You are not liberal. You are conservative dressed up as liberal.

Lemme guess.

Your solution to homelessness is cut taxes on the wealthy, deregulate, and the magical free market work it's wonders.

why is homelessness reaching epic levels under the most Progressive NYC Mayor in decades?


hmmmm?????

Why didn't tax cuts fix it?

???

when have they cut taxes in NYC SINCE IT STARTED RISING UNDER DE BLASIO?????

maybe they ought to try it huh?

 

[nuhuh]

Deflect all you like, let your heart sing. Trump needs to answer some questions about his involvement in racial discrimination as a senior member of his father's company in the 1970's. That should be easy to do, right?

HOW AM I DEFLECTING leftard?
YOU'RE deflecting. i'm saying people dont accuse obama of being a Muslim based on aning h is Daddy did; but based on ACTIONS AND STATEMENTS.

fail; try again.............

It's about Trump not about Obama. Hop back on your tricycle we'll get you to ride this thing yet.

i was responding specifically to the point being made, by YOU, IDIOT, that it is ok because of what Republicans said about obama

try again you moron!
lol

That issue has already been argued and tossed. If you have anything to add about Donald Trump's life in racism I'd be interested to hear it.

.............................and you already lost

thanks for playing though

You have a vivid imagination. Donald Trump is the subject today and the issue of racism is not going to go away.

 

[nuhuh]

No, and I think his solution is repulsive.

"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."

Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.

Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism. If you can focus on racism then you can keep the wages low and you don't have to deal with the situation. You are not liberal. You are conservative dressed up as liberal.

Lemme guess.

Your solution to homelessness is cut taxes on the wealthy, deregulate, and the magical free market work it's wonders.

why is homelessness reaching epic levels under the most Progressive NYC Mayor in decades?


hmmmm?????

Why didn't tax cuts fix it?

???

when have they cut taxes in NYC SINCE IT STARTED RISING UNDER DE BLASIO?????

maybe they ought to try it huh?

Silly, De Blasio isn't responsible for homelessness anymore than you are.

 

[bedowin62]

The Big Picture
While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.

By the numbers:

• In January 2014, there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
• Of that number, 216,197 are people in families, and
• 362,163 are individuals.
• About 15 percent of the homeless population – 84,291 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals, and
• About 9 percent of homeless people- 49,933 - are veterans.

These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.
Don't Forget the Kinda Unemployed


At its height, underemployment hit 17.2 percent, which means that more than one in six Americans had less work than they wanted. Although underemployment has steadily declined since, the pace has been slow. As of October, it’s 11.5 percent — a ignominious milestone that marks the first time since 2008 that underemployment dropped below its previous record high, set in 1994 (which is when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of this measure).

As it stands today, 17.7 million Americans are underemployed — double the number of officially unemployed. While the labor market has recovered to the point where unemployment is nearing pre-recession territory, marginal attachment remains elevated by 61 percent, and involuntary part-timing by 64 percent.

Snapshot of Homelessness

A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage


Do you understand?

No, and I think his solution is repulsive.

"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."

Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.

Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism. If you can focus on racism then you can keep the wages low and you don't have to deal with the situation. You are not liberal. You are conservative dressed up as liberal.

Lemme guess.

Your solution to homelessness is cut taxes on the wealthy, deregulate, and the magical free market work it's wonders.

why is homelessness reaching epic levels under the most Progressive NYC Mayor in decades?


hmmmm?????

Why didn't tax cuts fix it?

you're saying all those super-wealthy Progs in NYC arent paying their "fair share" leftard?


okee-doke

 

[bedowin62]

Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism. If you can focus on racism then you can keep the wages low and you don't have to deal with the situation. You are not liberal. You are conservative dressed up as liberal.

Lemme guess.

Your solution to homelessness is cut taxes on the wealthy, deregulate, and the magical free market work it's wonders.

why is homelessness reaching epic levels under the most Progressive NYC Mayor in decades?


hmmmm?????

Why didn't tax cuts fix it?

???

when have they cut taxes in NYC SINCE IT STARTED RISING UNDER DE BLASIO?????

maybe they ought to try it huh?

Silly, De Blasio isn't responsible for homelessness anymore than you are.

of course not leftard; Progressive means never having to say admit you were wrong

 

[nuhuh]

No, and I think his solution is repulsive.

"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."

Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.

Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism. If you can focus on racism then you can keep the wages low and you don't have to deal with the situation. You are not liberal. You are conservative dressed up as liberal.

Lemme guess.

Your solution to homelessness is cut taxes on the wealthy, deregulate, and the magical free market work it's wonders.

why is homelessness reaching epic levels under the most Progressive NYC Mayor in decades?


hmmmm?????

Why didn't tax cuts fix it?

you're saying all those super-wealthy Progs in NYC arent paying their "fair share" leftard?


okee-doke

If you can prove DeBlasio is responsible for homelessness in NYC I would be very interested to hear it. I'm listening.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

In other Trump related news
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/inderjit-singh-mukker-darien-assault
Sikh Man Attacked Before 9/11 Anniversary: ‘Go Back To Your Country, Bin Laden!’

 

[Disir]

The Big Picture
While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.

By the numbers:

• In January 2014, there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
• Of that number, 216,197 are people in families, and
• 362,163 are individuals.
• About 15 percent of the homeless population – 84,291 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals, and
• About 9 percent of homeless people- 49,933 - are veterans.

These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.
Don't Forget the Kinda Unemployed


At its height, underemployment hit 17.2 percent, which means that more than one in six Americans had less work than they wanted. Although underemployment has steadily declined since, the pace has been slow. As of October, it’s 11.5 percent — a ignominious milestone that marks the first time since 2008 that underemployment dropped below its previous record high, set in 1994 (which is when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of this measure).

As it stands today, 17.7 million Americans are underemployed — double the number of officially unemployed. While the labor market has recovered to the point where unemployment is nearing pre-recession territory, marginal attachment remains elevated by 61 percent, and involuntary part-timing by 64 percent.

Snapshot of Homelessness

A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage


Do you understand?

No, and I think his solution is repulsive.

"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."

Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.

Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism.

Nonsense, I do not support policies that would damage GDP by $1.6 trillion dollars, nor do I support moving millions of people at the cost of billions of dollars that would foolishly take twenty years to accomplish.

Say that out loud. You support depressing wages for Americans.

Do you realize how ignorant you sound when proposing getting rid of illegals opens up jobs for Americans? What American is going to want to step into below minimum wage work? Dork

H1B visas are clearly not minimum wage work unless you have your way. Further,

The jobless rate of Americans ages 25 to 34 who have only completed high school grew 4.3 percentage points to 10.6 percent in 2013 from 2007, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Unemployment for those in that age group with a college degree rose 1.5 percentage points to 3.7 percent in the same period.

“The underemployment of college graduates affects lesser educated parts of the labor force,” said economist Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a not-for-profit research organization in Washington. “Those with high-school diplomas that normally would have no problem getting jobs as bartenders or taxi drivers are sometimes kept from getting the jobs by people with college diplomas,” said Vedder, who is also a Bloomberg View contributor.

Low-wage Positions
Recent college graduates are ending up in more low-wage and part-time positions as it’s become harder to find education-level appropriate jobs, according to a January study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The share of Americans ages 22 to 27 with at least a bachelor’s degree in jobs that don’t require that level of education was 44 percent in 2012, up from 34 percent in 2001, the study found.

The recent rise in underemployment for college graduates represents a return to the levels of the early 1990s, according to the New York Fed study. The rate rose to 46 percent during the 1990-1991 recession, then declined during the economic expansion that followed as employers hired new graduates to keep pace with technological advances.
College Grads Taking Low-Wage Jobs Displace Less Educated

KEY FINDINGS:
• Immigrants compose an increasingly large share of the U.S. labor force and a growing share of low-wage workers. Immigrants are 11 percent of all U.S. residents, but 14 percent of all workers and 20 percent of low-wage workers.
• Immigrants’ hourly wages are lower on average than those for natives, and nearly half earn less than 200 percent of the minimum wage—versus one-third of native workers.
• Immigrant workers are much more likely than natives to drop out of high school (30 versus 8 percent), and are far more likely to have less than a ninth-grade education (18 versus 1 percent).
• Three-fourths of all U.S. workers with less than a ninth-grade education are immigrants.
•Nearly two-thirds of low-wage immigrant workers do not speak English proficiently, and most of these workers have had little formal education.
• Two of every five low-wage immigrant workers are undocumented. Labor force participation is higher among undocumented men than among men who are legal immigrants or U.S. citizens.
• While the low-wage native labor force is mainly female (59 percent), men dominate the
low-wage immigrant labor force (56 percent).
• Even though they are less likely to participate in the labor force, female immigrant workers are better educated and more likely to be in the United States legally than male immigrants.
• Foreign-born women earn substantially lower wages than either foreign-born men or native women.
• Although immigrants dominate a few low-wage occupations—farming and private household workers—immigrants in these occupations represent a small share of all low-wage foreign-born workers. During the 1990s, one out of every two new workers was an immigrant.
1 While many immigrants speak English well and enter the United States with strong academic credentials and skills, many others do not. Like other low-skilled workers, few of these immigrants enjoy the benefits of employer-provided training programs, most of which are geared to managers or highly skilled workers.
2 Low-wage immigrant workers have also been outside the reach of government-spon-
sored job training programs that concentrate on getting welfare recipients into the labor market and have often underserved persons with limited English skills.
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Clinics/Immclinic_Low_wage_workforce_Passel.pdf

There is some disagreement among economist about the size of the impact on American workers. However, almost all economists agree that less-educated workers have done very poorly in the labor market over the last four decades as immigration has increased. This testimony examines trends in wages and employment and finds no evidence of a shortage of less-educated workers. Moreover, there is significant research showing that immigration has reduced employment and wages for less-educated natives.

Highlights

• There is no evidence of a labor shortage at the bottom end of the labor market. If there were, wages, benefits, and employment should all be increasing.
  
  
• There has been a long-term decline in wages, even before the current recession:1
  • Hourly wages for male non-high school graduates declined 22 percent from 1979 to 2007.
  • Hourly wages for male high school graduates declined 10 percent from 1979 to 2007.
    
• Comparing the third quarters of 2000 and 2007 shows that the share of adult natives (18 to 65) without a high school degree holding a job fell from 54 percent to 48 percent. For those with only a high school education, it fell from 73 percent to 70 percent.2
  
  
• The current situation looks even worse. The share of natives (18 to 65) without a high school degree holding a job in the third quarter of 2009 was down to 43 percent. For those (18 to 65) with only a high school education it was down to 65 percent.3
  
  
• There is huge supply of potential less-educated workers. In 2007, before the recession, there were more than 22 million native-born Americans (18 to 65) with a high school degree or less not working. In the third quarter of 2009 it was nearly 26 million.4
  
  
• There is no evidence that immigrants only do jobs Americans don’t want. Of the 465 occupations defined by the government, only four are majority immigrant. Many jobs often thought to be majority immigrant are in fact majority native. For example:5
  • Maids and housekeepers: 55 percent native-born
  • Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 58 percent native-born
  • Butchers and meat processors: 63 percent native-born
  • Grounds maintenance workers: 65 percent native-born
  • Construction laborers: 65 percent native-born
  • Janitors: 75 percent native-born.
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    Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Workers
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[bedowin62]

In other Trump related news
Sikh Man Attacked Before 9/11 Anniversary: ‘Go Back To Your Country, Bin Laden!’

is this the part where i post all kinds of beheadings and butcherings people did to
Christians just for being Christians moron?
or are you just an idiot?

 

[Disir]

Ok. This is flat out stupid.
Put American Workers First

Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”

The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.



Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”

Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:

Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.

Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.

End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.

Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.

Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.

Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.

Immigration Reform

Yep. They sure do need to know.

"They have got to go. That about sums up the immigration ideas laid out by Donald Trump on Sunday's "Meet the Press," and in an accompanying 1,900-word policy paper. After making opposition to illegal immigration a cornerstone of his circus-like presidential campaign, The Donald has finally ventured into specifics with an immigration policy plan centered on increased border security and immigration enforcement.

While it is a good sign that Trump has ventured into actual policy proposals, his ideas are impractical at best and at worst inhumane. His ideas veer far to the right of the American mainstream. Far from stabilizing our economy, his plans could well stunt our economic growth.

Consider: Trump wants to build a wall all across our southern border with Mexico. To those for whom fighting illegal immigration is a top priority, this might sound like a smart, common-sense plan. But this line of thinking ignores reality. The border is more secure than it has been in years; an analysis this year by The Washington Post found that illegal crossings along the Mexican border were at their lowest level in two decades.

Meanwhile, our country's population of undocumented immigrants has dropped by about 1 million over the last several years, according to the Pew Research Center. We don't need that wall; what we do need is smarter immigration enforcement.

Trump says that his administration would force the Mexican government to pay for this wall. With all due respect, such an idea is laughable. A spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, when told of Trump's plan to have Mexico foot the bill for a wall between our two countries, told Bloomberg News, "It reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who's saying it." He's right on both counts.

To force Mexico to pay for this wall, Trump says he would impose import tariffs for its construction. Imagine how disruptive it would be if "President Trump" were to enter into an all-out economic battle with one of our top three trade partners, whose imports to the U.S. in 2014 totalled $294 billion.

The most troubling part of Trump's immigration plan is that he has, in effect, endorsed mass deportations of the undocumented. "We're going to keep the families together, but they have to go," he said on "Meet the Press." Think about what this would mean: Our undocumented population is estimated at about 11 million, roughly equivalent to the population of Ohio.

Think of the tremendous economic upheaval, human suffering and community destabilization that would occur if our government were to round up and remove 11 million people. Such an idea is staggering in its lack of compassion, especially since a reported 62%of the undocumented have lived here for at least a decade, most as productive members of their American communities.
More at the link "Donald Trump's clueless immigration plan - CNN.com

Yes they sure as hell do need to know.

The Big Picture
While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.

By the numbers:

• In January 2014, there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
• Of that number, 216,197 are people in families, and
• 362,163 are individuals.
• About 15 percent of the homeless population – 84,291 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals, and
• About 9 percent of homeless people- 49,933 - are veterans.

These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.
Don't Forget the Kinda Unemployed


At its height, underemployment hit 17.2 percent, which means that more than one in six Americans had less work than they wanted. Although underemployment has steadily declined since, the pace has been slow. As of October, it’s 11.5 percent — a ignominious milestone that marks the first time since 2008 that underemployment dropped below its previous record high, set in 1994 (which is when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of this measure).

As it stands today, 17.7 million Americans are underemployed — double the number of officially unemployed. While the labor market has recovered to the point where unemployment is nearing pre-recession territory, marginal attachment remains elevated by 61 percent, and involuntary part-timing by 64 percent.

Snapshot of Homelessness

A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage


Do you understand?

No, and I think his solution is repulsive.

"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."

Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.

Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism. If you can focus on racism then you can keep the wages low and you don't have to deal with the situation. You are not liberal. You are conservative dressed up as liberal.

Lemme guess.

Your solution to homelessness is cut taxes on the wealthy, deregulate, and the magical free market work it's wonders.

Try again.

 

[nuhuh]

No, and I think his solution is repulsive.

"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."

Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.

Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism.

Nonsense, I do not support policies that would damage GDP by $1.6 trillion dollars, nor do I support moving millions of people at the cost of billions of dollars that would foolishly take twenty years to accomplish.

Say that out loud. You support depressing wages for Americans.

Do you realize how ignorant you sound when proposing getting rid of illegals opens up jobs for Americans? What American is going to want to step into below minimum wage work? Dork

H1B visas are clearly not minimum wage work unless you have your way. Further,

The jobless rate of Americans ages 25 to 34 who have only completed high school grew 4.3 percentage points to 10.6 percent in 2013 from 2007, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Unemployment for those in that age group with a college degree rose 1.5 percentage points to 3.7 percent in the same period.

“The underemployment of college graduates affects lesser educated parts of the labor force,” said economist Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a not-for-profit research organization in Washington. “Those with high-school diplomas that normally would have no problem getting jobs as bartenders or taxi drivers are sometimes kept from getting the jobs by people with college diplomas,” said Vedder, who is also a Bloomberg View contributor.

Low-wage Positions
Recent college graduates are ending up in more low-wage and part-time positions as it’s become harder to find education-level appropriate jobs, according to a January study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The share of Americans ages 22 to 27 with at least a bachelor’s degree in jobs that don’t require that level of education was 44 percent in 2012, up from 34 percent in 2001, the study found.

The recent rise in underemployment for college graduates represents a return to the levels of the early 1990s, according to the New York Fed study. The rate rose to 46 percent during the 1990-1991 recession, then declined during the economic expansion that followed as employers hired new graduates to keep pace with technological advances.
College Grads Taking Low-Wage Jobs Displace Less Educated

KEY FINDINGS:
• Immigrants compose an increasingly large share of the U.S. labor force and a growing share of low-wage workers. Immigrants are 11 percent of all U.S. residents, but 14 percent of all workers and 20 percent of low-wage workers.
• Immigrants’ hourly wages are lower on average than those for natives, and nearly half earn less than 200 percent of the minimum wage—versus one-third of native workers.
• Immigrant workers are much more likely than natives to drop out of high school (30 versus 8 percent), and are far more likely to have less than a ninth-grade education (18 versus 1 percent).
• Three-fourths of all U.S. workers with less than a ninth-grade education are immigrants.
•Nearly two-thirds of low-wage immigrant workers do not speak English proficiently, and most of these workers have had little formal education.
• Two of every five low-wage immigrant workers are undocumented. Labor force participation is higher among undocumented men than among men who are legal immigrants or U.S. citizens.
• While the low-wage native labor force is mainly female (59 percent), men dominate the
low-wage immigrant labor force (56 percent).
• Even though they are less likely to participate in the labor force, female immigrant workers are better educated and more likely to be in the United States legally than male immigrants.
• Foreign-born women earn substantially lower wages than either foreign-born men or native women.
• Although immigrants dominate a few low-wage occupations—farming and private household workers—immigrants in these occupations represent a small share of all low-wage foreign-born workers. During the 1990s, one out of every two new workers was an immigrant.
1 While many immigrants speak English well and enter the United States with strong academic credentials and skills, many others do not. Like other low-skilled workers, few of these immigrants enjoy the benefits of employer-provided training programs, most of which are geared to managers or highly skilled workers.
2 Low-wage immigrant workers have also been outside the reach of government-spon-
sored job training programs that concentrate on getting welfare recipients into the labor market and have often underserved persons with limited English skills.
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Clinics/Immclinic_Low_wage_workforce_Passel.pdf

There is some disagreement among economist about the size of the impact on American workers. However, almost all economists agree that less-educated workers have done very poorly in the labor market over the last four decades as immigration has increased. This testimony examines trends in wages and employment and finds no evidence of a shortage of less-educated workers. Moreover, there is significant research showing that immigration has reduced employment and wages for less-educated natives.

Highlights

• There is no evidence of a labor shortage at the bottom end of the labor market. If there were, wages, benefits, and employment should all be increasing.
  
  
• There has been a long-term decline in wages, even before the current recession:1
  • Hourly wages for male non-high school graduates declined 22 percent from 1979 to 2007.
  • Hourly wages for male high school graduates declined 10 percent from 1979 to 2007.
• Comparing the third quarters of 2000 and 2007 shows that the share of adult natives (18 to 65) without a high school degree holding a job fell from 54 percent to 48 percent. For those with only a high school education, it fell from 73 percent to 70 percent.2
  
  
• The current situation looks even worse. The share of natives (18 to 65) without a high school degree holding a job in the third quarter of 2009 was down to 43 percent. For those (18 to 65) with only a high school education it was down to 65 percent.3
  
  
• There is huge supply of potential less-educated workers. In 2007, before the recession, there were more than 22 million native-born Americans (18 to 65) with a high school degree or less not working. In the third quarter of 2009 it was nearly 26 million.4
  
  
• There is no evidence that immigrants only do jobs Americans don’t want. Of the 465 occupations defined by the government, only four are majority immigrant. Many jobs often thought to be majority immigrant are in fact majority native. For example:5
  • Maids and housekeepers: 55 percent native-born
  • Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 58 percent native-born
  • Butchers and meat processors: 63 percent native-born
  • Grounds maintenance workers: 65 percent native-born
  • Construction laborers: 65 percent native-born
  • Janitors: 75 percent native-born.
  • 
    
    Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Workers

If H1B visas are being used by business to pay lower wages getting rid of Mexicans is only going to add 3,400 jobs. The preponderance of visas originate in other countries not currently being talked about by Donald Trump.

 

[g5000]

Well THANK GOD he wasn't a FORMER High Exalted CYCLOPS of the KKK who became the DemocRATs RESPECTED VOICE in the Senate!.... Are you really THIS stupid? Do I need to show a connection between any DemocRAT president, or candidate to Byrd... Just tell me and I'll fill you in!

I couldn't resist... the Hildebeasty LOVED that old KKK Cyclops!

Man, you guys a getting faster and faster. You are now upchucking tu quoque fallacies faster than I can predict they are coming!

what part is a fallacy leftard?

Allow me to teach you: Tu quoque

An attempt to excuse bad behavior with the Two Wrongs Make A Right Winger gambit. It is what people do when they can't debate the point at hand.

 

[Disir]

Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism.

Nonsense, I do not support policies that would damage GDP by $1.6 trillion dollars, nor do I support moving millions of people at the cost of billions of dollars that would foolishly take twenty years to accomplish.

Say that out loud. You support depressing wages for Americans.

Do you realize how ignorant you sound when proposing getting rid of illegals opens up jobs for Americans? What American is going to want to step into below minimum wage work? Dork

H1B visas are clearly not minimum wage work unless you have your way. Further,

The jobless rate of Americans ages 25 to 34 who have only completed high school grew 4.3 percentage points to 10.6 percent in 2013 from 2007, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Unemployment for those in that age group with a college degree rose 1.5 percentage points to 3.7 percent in the same period.

“The underemployment of college graduates affects lesser educated parts of the labor force,” said economist Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a not-for-profit research organization in Washington. “Those with high-school diplomas that normally would have no problem getting jobs as bartenders or taxi drivers are sometimes kept from getting the jobs by people with college diplomas,” said Vedder, who is also a Bloomberg View contributor.

Low-wage Positions
Recent college graduates are ending up in more low-wage and part-time positions as it’s become harder to find education-level appropriate jobs, according to a January study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The share of Americans ages 22 to 27 with at least a bachelor’s degree in jobs that don’t require that level of education was 44 percent in 2012, up from 34 percent in 2001, the study found.

The recent rise in underemployment for college graduates represents a return to the levels of the early 1990s, according to the New York Fed study. The rate rose to 46 percent during the 1990-1991 recession, then declined during the economic expansion that followed as employers hired new graduates to keep pace with technological advances.
College Grads Taking Low-Wage Jobs Displace Less Educated

KEY FINDINGS:
• Immigrants compose an increasingly large share of the U.S. labor force and a growing share of low-wage workers. Immigrants are 11 percent of all U.S. residents, but 14 percent of all workers and 20 percent of low-wage workers.
• Immigrants’ hourly wages are lower on average than those for natives, and nearly half earn less than 200 percent of the minimum wage—versus one-third of native workers.
• Immigrant workers are much more likely than natives to drop out of high school (30 versus 8 percent), and are far more likely to have less than a ninth-grade education (18 versus 1 percent).
• Three-fourths of all U.S. workers with less than a ninth-grade education are immigrants.
•Nearly two-thirds of low-wage immigrant workers do not speak English proficiently, and most of these workers have had little formal education.
• Two of every five low-wage immigrant workers are undocumented. Labor force participation is higher among undocumented men than among men who are legal immigrants or U.S. citizens.
• While the low-wage native labor force is mainly female (59 percent), men dominate the
low-wage immigrant labor force (56 percent).
• Even though they are less likely to participate in the labor force, female immigrant workers are better educated and more likely to be in the United States legally than male immigrants.
• Foreign-born women earn substantially lower wages than either foreign-born men or native women.
• Although immigrants dominate a few low-wage occupations—farming and private household workers—immigrants in these occupations represent a small share of all low-wage foreign-born workers. During the 1990s, one out of every two new workers was an immigrant.
1 While many immigrants speak English well and enter the United States with strong academic credentials and skills, many others do not. Like other low-skilled workers, few of these immigrants enjoy the benefits of employer-provided training programs, most of which are geared to managers or highly skilled workers.
2 Low-wage immigrant workers have also been outside the reach of government-spon-
sored job training programs that concentrate on getting welfare recipients into the labor market and have often underserved persons with limited English skills.
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Clinics/Immclinic_Low_wage_workforce_Passel.pdf

There is some disagreement among economist about the size of the impact on American workers. However, almost all economists agree that less-educated workers have done very poorly in the labor market over the last four decades as immigration has increased. This testimony examines trends in wages and employment and finds no evidence of a shortage of less-educated workers. Moreover, there is significant research showing that immigration has reduced employment and wages for less-educated natives.

Highlights

• There is no evidence of a labor shortage at the bottom end of the labor market. If there were, wages, benefits, and employment should all be increasing.
  
  
• There has been a long-term decline in wages, even before the current recession:1
  • Hourly wages for male non-high school graduates declined 22 percent from 1979 to 2007.
  • Hourly wages for male high school graduates declined 10 percent from 1979 to 2007.
• Comparing the third quarters of 2000 and 2007 shows that the share of adult natives (18 to 65) without a high school degree holding a job fell from 54 percent to 48 percent. For those with only a high school education, it fell from 73 percent to 70 percent.2
  
  
• The current situation looks even worse. The share of natives (18 to 65) without a high school degree holding a job in the third quarter of 2009 was down to 43 percent. For those (18 to 65) with only a high school education it was down to 65 percent.3
  
  
• There is huge supply of potential less-educated workers. In 2007, before the recession, there were more than 22 million native-born Americans (18 to 65) with a high school degree or less not working. In the third quarter of 2009 it was nearly 26 million.4
  
  
• There is no evidence that immigrants only do jobs Americans don’t want. Of the 465 occupations defined by the government, only four are majority immigrant. Many jobs often thought to be majority immigrant are in fact majority native. For example:5
  • Maids and housekeepers: 55 percent native-born
  • Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 58 percent native-born
  • Butchers and meat processors: 63 percent native-born
  • Grounds maintenance workers: 65 percent native-born
  • Construction laborers: 65 percent native-born
  • Janitors: 75 percent native-born.
  • 
    
    Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Workers

If H1B visas are being used by business to pay lower wages getting rid of Mexicans is only going to add 3,400 jobs. The preponderance of visas originate in other countries not currently being talked about by Donald Trump.

But he is talking about them and you're not. Hence, the reason that the focus is on racism. By focusing on that you don't have to deal with the rest of it. Pretty convenient. Is it not? Because all of what I first posted came from his website. Policies.

You support depressing American wages.

 

[theHawk]

Donald Trump will have to answer for this over the next couple of weeks and no matter how loud he screams, the public wants to know. Witness the meltdown and destruction of the 2016 Republican candidate.

LOL, yea I'm sure Trump is quaking in his boots over this absurdity. Good luck, if this is the best you have on him you're going to need it.

 

[nuhuh]

Nonsense, I do not support policies that would damage GDP by $1.6 trillion dollars, nor do I support moving millions of people at the cost of billions of dollars that would foolishly take twenty years to accomplish.

Say that out loud. You support depressing wages for Americans.

Do you realize how ignorant you sound when proposing getting rid of illegals opens up jobs for Americans? What American is going to want to step into below minimum wage work? Dork

H1B visas are clearly not minimum wage work unless you have your way. Further,

The jobless rate of Americans ages 25 to 34 who have only completed high school grew 4.3 percentage points to 10.6 percent in 2013 from 2007, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Unemployment for those in that age group with a college degree rose 1.5 percentage points to 3.7 percent in the same period.

“The underemployment of college graduates affects lesser educated parts of the labor force,” said economist Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a not-for-profit research organization in Washington. “Those with high-school diplomas that normally would have no problem getting jobs as bartenders or taxi drivers are sometimes kept from getting the jobs by people with college diplomas,” said Vedder, who is also a Bloomberg View contributor.

Low-wage Positions
Recent college graduates are ending up in more low-wage and part-time positions as it’s become harder to find education-level appropriate jobs, according to a January study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The share of Americans ages 22 to 27 with at least a bachelor’s degree in jobs that don’t require that level of education was 44 percent in 2012, up from 34 percent in 2001, the study found.

The recent rise in underemployment for college graduates represents a return to the levels of the early 1990s, according to the New York Fed study. The rate rose to 46 percent during the 1990-1991 recession, then declined during the economic expansion that followed as employers hired new graduates to keep pace with technological advances.
College Grads Taking Low-Wage Jobs Displace Less Educated

KEY FINDINGS:
• Immigrants compose an increasingly large share of the U.S. labor force and a growing share of low-wage workers. Immigrants are 11 percent of all U.S. residents, but 14 percent of all workers and 20 percent of low-wage workers.
• Immigrants’ hourly wages are lower on average than those for natives, and nearly half earn less than 200 percent of the minimum wage—versus one-third of native workers.
• Immigrant workers are much more likely than natives to drop out of high school (30 versus 8 percent), and are far more likely to have less than a ninth-grade education (18 versus 1 percent).
• Three-fourths of all U.S. workers with less than a ninth-grade education are immigrants.
•Nearly two-thirds of low-wage immigrant workers do not speak English proficiently, and most of these workers have had little formal education.
• Two of every five low-wage immigrant workers are undocumented. Labor force participation is higher among undocumented men than among men who are legal immigrants or U.S. citizens.
• While the low-wage native labor force is mainly female (59 percent), men dominate the
low-wage immigrant labor force (56 percent).
• Even though they are less likely to participate in the labor force, female immigrant workers are better educated and more likely to be in the United States legally than male immigrants.
• Foreign-born women earn substantially lower wages than either foreign-born men or native women.
• Although immigrants dominate a few low-wage occupations—farming and private household workers—immigrants in these occupations represent a small share of all low-wage foreign-born workers. During the 1990s, one out of every two new workers was an immigrant.
1 While many immigrants speak English well and enter the United States with strong academic credentials and skills, many others do not. Like other low-skilled workers, few of these immigrants enjoy the benefits of employer-provided training programs, most of which are geared to managers or highly skilled workers.
2 Low-wage immigrant workers have also been outside the reach of government-spon-
sored job training programs that concentrate on getting welfare recipients into the labor market and have often underserved persons with limited English skills.
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Clinics/Immclinic_Low_wage_workforce_Passel.pdf

There is some disagreement among economist about the size of the impact on American workers. However, almost all economists agree that less-educated workers have done very poorly in the labor market over the last four decades as immigration has increased. This testimony examines trends in wages and employment and finds no evidence of a shortage of less-educated workers. Moreover, there is significant research showing that immigration has reduced employment and wages for less-educated natives.

Highlights

• There is no evidence of a labor shortage at the bottom end of the labor market. If there were, wages, benefits, and employment should all be increasing.
  
  
• There has been a long-term decline in wages, even before the current recession:1
  • Hourly wages for male non-high school graduates declined 22 percent from 1979 to 2007.
  • Hourly wages for male high school graduates declined 10 percent from 1979 to 2007.
• Comparing the third quarters of 2000 and 2007 shows that the share of adult natives (18 to 65) without a high school degree holding a job fell from 54 percent to 48 percent. For those with only a high school education, it fell from 73 percent to 70 percent.2
  
  
• The current situation looks even worse. The share of natives (18 to 65) without a high school degree holding a job in the third quarter of 2009 was down to 43 percent. For those (18 to 65) with only a high school education it was down to 65 percent.3
  
  
• There is huge supply of potential less-educated workers. In 2007, before the recession, there were more than 22 million native-born Americans (18 to 65) with a high school degree or less not working. In the third quarter of 2009 it was nearly 26 million.4
  
  
• There is no evidence that immigrants only do jobs Americans don’t want. Of the 465 occupations defined by the government, only four are majority immigrant. Many jobs often thought to be majority immigrant are in fact majority native. For example:5
  • Maids and housekeepers: 55 percent native-born
  • Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 58 percent native-born
  • Butchers and meat processors: 63 percent native-born
  • Grounds maintenance workers: 65 percent native-born
  • Construction laborers: 65 percent native-born
  • Janitors: 75 percent native-born.
  • 
    
    Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Workers

If H1B visas are being used by business to pay lower wages getting rid of Mexicans is only going to add 3,400 jobs. The preponderance of visas originate in other countries not currently being talked about by Donald Trump.

But he is talking about them and you're not. Hence, the reason that the focus is on racism. By focusing on that you don't have to deal with the rest of it. Pretty convenient. Is it not? Because all of what I first posted came from his website. Policies.

You support depressing American wages.

You are wrong again. If Americans pick up 3400 jobs because Mexicans are being deported what about the 250,000 jobs that are not being discussed? Also, what of the intern jobs that Trump uses to avoid paying a living wage? Nearly all of his companies use internships to pick up college graduates.

 

[nuhuh]

Donald Trump will have to answer for this over the next couple of weeks and no matter how loud he screams, the public wants to know. Witness the meltdown and destruction of the 2016 Republican candidate.

LOL, yea I'm sure Trump is quaking in his boots over this absurdity. Good luck, if this is the best you have on him you're going to need it.

Laugh a couple weeks from now when he is on the front pages defending his racism.

 

[theHawk]

Donald Trump will have to answer for this over the next couple of weeks and no matter how loud he screams, the public wants to know. Witness the meltdown and destruction of the 2016 Republican candidate.

LOL, yea I'm sure Trump is quaking in his boots over this absurdity. Good luck, if this is the best you have on him you're going to need it.

Laugh a couple weeks from now when he is on the front pages defending his racism.

You idiots have been calling him racist for months now. I'm glad the left is too dumb to see it won't stick and they'll just keep saying it over and over. Poor progressive idiots just don't know what else to do.

 

[nuhuh]

Donald Trump will have to answer for this over the next couple of weeks and no matter how loud he screams, the public wants to know. Witness the meltdown and destruction of the 2016 Republican candidate.

LOL, yea I'm sure Trump is quaking in his boots over this absurdity. Good luck, if this is the best you have on him you're going to need it.

Laugh a couple weeks from now when he is on the front pages defending his racism.

You idiots have been calling him racist for months now. I'm glad the left is too dumb to see it won't stick and they'll just keep saying it over and over. Poor progressive idiots just don't know what else to do.

Too bad the issue has some meat with proof of discrimination by the New York Housing Authority.