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by nielsbot 297 days ago
Key Points

- While some policymakers have blamed immigration for slowing U.S. wage growth since the 1970s, most academic research finds little long run effect on Americans’ wages.

- The available evidence suggests that immigration leads to more innovation, a better educated workforce, greater occupational specialization, better matching of skills with jobs, and higher overall economic productivity.

- Immigration also has a net positive effect on combined federal, state, and local budgets. But not all taxpayers benefit equally. In regions with large populations of less educated, low-income immigrants, native-bor

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116727/documents/...

2 comments

what a weird way of rephrasing what the study actually says

"most academic research finds little long run effect on Americans’ wages."

Right, with this sentence being important right after:

"studies suggest that these gains come at the cost of short-term losses from lower wages and higher unemployment."

This account seems to be bot-posting.