A new Congressional Research Service study shows middle class wages have dropped below 1970’s levels as immigration levels rose.
The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service report studied immigration and middle class income from 1945-2013 and found that as immigration slowed between 1945 and 1970, American incomes increased.
But when immigration expanded, the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans went flat and then dropped beginning in 2000.
In the report to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the CRS reported that the foreign-born population of the United States surged 324.5 percent, from 9,740,000 to 41,348,066, from 1970 to 2013.
And as that happened, incomes of the bottom 90 percent dropped 7.9 percent in 2013 dollars, from an average of $33,621 to $30,980.
The mass immigration effect is pronounced when the data is split up into pre and post-1970 eras. 1970 represents a beginning of the current era of open immigration policy.
2. From 1945-1970, how did overall wages change for the bottom 90% of earners?
Answer – The reported income of the bottom 90% of tax filers in the United States increased from an average of $18,418 in 1945 to $33,621 in 1970 for an aggregate change of $15,202 or a percent increase of 82.5% over this 25 year period.
3. From 1945-1970, what was the net change in the share of income held by the bottom 90% of the U.S. income distribution?
Answer – The share of income held by the bottom 90% of the U.S. income distribution increased from 67.4% in 1945 to 68.5% in 1970, an absolute increase of 1.1 percentage points over this 25 year period.
With all the attention the mainstream media pays to questions of income inequality, you would think this study would make a huge splash. Yet, it’s unlikely they will feature these findings. It should also raise questions about efforts to increase H1-B high tech visa numbers and what that would mean for American IT workers.
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I’ve been talking about this for years now, just go out to a new home construction site that, you may only find a couple of people working who can even speak English, and that guy will be running the crew.
Illegals working under the table for contractors have cut Carpenters, Laborers, Tile Guys, Painters out of work. And these are middle class jobs IF your paid the correct wages.
Home Depot wanted me to run a crew of illegals, but the money they wanted to pay per job was not enough to make it worth while, at $3.50 a square foot for tile installations, and they wanted me to provide the underlayment, which cost me around $1.25 per sq.
When people buy services from the Box stores nowadays, they are getting illegals, even if Home Depot and Lowes give a guarantee on instillation.
People looking for a bargain price don’t consider how they are actually hurting themselves in the long run.
I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, the 21st century is just a repeat of the 19th century. Instead of having sweatshop labor in America, corporations have it in Third World countries with tax breaks to boot. Just how much do think that $500 dollar IPhone costs Apple to make? Yet, look at how many idiots line up year after year to get the latest model. Maybe, if Americans stopped buying all of this stuff made overseas things might change. Because the people in these Third World countries sure don’t have the money to buy this stuff.