For 22 Million Unemployed Americans, Immigration Reform Poses A Big Risk

For 22 Million Unemployed Americans, Immigration Reform Poses A Big RiskVT Digger – If you look at the U.S. labor force, there is plenty to worry about. The sociologist William Julius Wilson calls it “the disappearance of work,” visible first in inner-cities and now elsewhere.

Declining youth employment, declining participation in the workforce, more off-the-books employment, stagnant or declining wages for most Americans – all have multiple causes, but the causes include the preference of American employers for foreign workers. [Read More]