One of the biggest misconceptions about undocumented immigrants is that they don’t pay any taxes. In his first address to Congress, President Trump set the tone for his coming immigration agenda when he said immigration ...
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America needs more workers. Trump’s war on immigration won’t help.
The causes of America’s worker shortfall include an aging population and a birthrate that recently hit a historic low. With the jobless rate bumping along at just above 4 percent, companies desperate to fill orders and m ...
Without immigration, our economy is in big trouble
Unfortunately, it's not just me. Other employers are having a hard time finding the right candidates to fill vacancies at all skill and experience levels. And as if this weren't bad enough, the US Census Bureau just repo ...
Without immigration, our economy is in big trouble
Unfortunately, it's not just me. Other employers are having a hard time finding the right candidates to fill vacancies at all skill and experience levels. And as if this weren't bad enough, the US Census Bureau just repo ...
Trump says American workers are hurt by immigration. But after ICE raided this Texas town, they never showed up.
Not on the day of the Big Raid. Nothing leaked out. State police sealed off the highways in and out of town. ICE agents came with a fleet of empty buses and left with them full. ...
Why Trump’s effort to curb immigration could hurt US economy
Lost in the immigration debate raging in Washington is the vital economic role played by immigrants who don’t have the education, training or skills that the Trump administration and many Republicans in Congress say shou ...
American Dreamers: Why immigrants start so many businesses
Analysts note that that entrepreneurial drive has become a more critical need as the number of newly formed American businesses has declined — to 414,000 in 2015 from a pre-recession average of 524,000 a year in 2002-200 ...
Why Employers In Georgia Are Watching The Immigration Debate Closely
"We are suffering very much from shortage of labor — skilled labor — here in Dalton," said Ahmed Salama, the CEO of Oriental Weavers USA, the American branch of a giant Egyptian company. Salama recently showed me around ...
GOP senator suggests we need fewer immigrants because robots are coming
Well, part of it seems to be that robots are coming for our jobs. ...
Refugees don’t drain America’s economy. They revitalize it
But there is another casualty: the U.S. economy. ...
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