Intelligencer Journal – A large, sustained new influx of low-wage workers may put downward pressure on wages across the board. And the outlook may be particularly grim for low-skilled workers, who have already been hammered the hardest by our recent economic troubles.
“It is no secret that the employment picture for low-skilled workers is abysmal,” wrote former National Labor Relations Board member Peter Kirsanow in an op-ed last week. “The employment rate has been above 7.5 percent for more than four years and millions have dropped out of the workforce entirely.”
Immigration reform, Kirsanow wrote, “has the potential to make things even worse.” [Read More]
