Economists and politicians hailed Friday’s jobs report as a howling success with both the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s Establishment report and Household survey showing over 280,000 jobs created in the past month far above expectations of 215,000. However, the folks at Zero Hedge dug into the BLS data sets a little closer than the mainstream […]
Illegal Immigration Bigger Threat to Black Americans than Police Brutality
The flood of low-skilled illegal aliens into the U.S. has eroded the low-skilled job market for American blacks and driven the labor participation rate for this sector to dangerous lows. This replacement of lower skilled black Americans with illegal aliens has a profound effect on the American economy and the social make up of the […]
Study Shows Middle Class Incomes Crushed by Immigration
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 […]
Many Businesses Ignore E-Verify Laws
One key tactic used to control the massive flow of illegal immigrants to the United States is to make it difficult for businesses to hire workers who are not in the country legally. The cornerstone of this program is the federal system called E-verify. E-verify allows responsible business owners to quickly check the immigration bone […]