• MEDIA: Establishment Media Hide Migration's Cheap Labor Bubble

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 11 12:47:16 2021
    Via Breitbart Immigration, Breitbart.COM/immigration, see Neil Munro
    on whether Donald Trump's Save America PAC will endorse Ken Cuccinelli: <URL:https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/25/establishment-media-hides-migrations-cheap-labor-bubble/>
    | Leonhardt -- and likely, many of his colleagues -- know the
    | immigration elephant stomps on Americans' wages. Back in July 2019,
    | when Trump's low-migration policy was raising wages for marginalized
    | Americans, Leonhardt pushed through the corporate pressure to write:
    |
    || As regular readers know, I have become somewhat hawkish on
    || immigration. I think our immigration policy should take into account
    || the sharp rise in inequality over the last few decades. One way to
    || do so would be to reduce, or at least hold constant, the level of
    || immigration by people who would compete for lower- and middle-wage
    || jobs while increasing immigration among people who would compete for
    || higher-wage jobs.
    ||
    || History also makes this point. It's not just a coincidence that
    || the period of strongest income gains for middle-class and poor
    || families -- starting in the 1940s -- followed, and overlapped with,
    || a period of falling immigration. "Immigration restriction, by making
    || unskilled labor more scarce, tended to shore up wage rates," the
    || great labor historian Irving Bernstein wrote.
    |
    | Leonhardt's new May 21 column ignores the role of immigration.

    Does Leonhardt believe legacy American proles have a right to resist
    their dispossession and does he agree with Morris Dees and $PLC's
    certifcation of Kevin Lynn as a deplorable?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "I'm open to the theory that Trump was grown in a lab to sabotage
    populism from the right" - Pedro Gonzalez <URL:https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1392956684956577792>

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