Immigration is driving rapid U.S. population increase
Under the current immigration law and enforcement regime, the United States is experiencing a higher rate of immigration, legal plus illegal, than ever before, and that is driving a large increase in...
View ArticleEffect of Immigration on Low-Income American Workers
We liberals sometimes have a disturbing tendency to ignore unpleasant truths when they conflict with our agendas. On no issue is our perception more blinkered than on immigration. Rather than...
View ArticleEffect of Continuing High Immigration Rate During the Recession
We are in the worst recession since the Great Depression, yet legal immigration continues at high levels and is adding to unemployment, because immigration policy remains on autopilot. Our economy has...
View ArticleThe High Cost of Cheap Immigrant Labor
I would hate to see decisions on immigration reform made on the basis of what is "good for the economy," good for business interests, or the wallets of economically comfortable Americans. In previous...
View ArticleSupreme Court Decision Will Rationalize Congress
By allowing corporations to express their right to free speech in their preferred and time honored way the Supreme Court has opened the door on a new day. No unhealthy smoke-filled rooms, traded...
View ArticleMachiavelli on Health Care Reform
In his editorial on Health Care Reform in the recent issue of the AARP Bulletin Jim Toedtman wisely quotes Niccolo Machiavelli. There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to...
View ArticleTax the rich to Move HCR from 2014 to 2011
I suggest a second budget reconciliation bill that would move implementation of all provisions of the HCR law from 2014 to 2011. That would require nothing more than a small temporary income tax...
View ArticleOpportunity Costs of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
I will set aside the contentious question of amnesty, and address instead the large increase in legal immigration in the Senate proposal and the deleterious effect it would have on employment and...
View ArticleEmployers Are Replacing Non-Immigrants With Immigrants
Employment statistics reported by the Pew Hispanic Center (Kochhar et al., 2010) indicate that American businesses are using the recession and the recovery to replace non-immigrant workers with...
View ArticleFairness Doctrine and Political Violence
The Fairness Doctrine, implemented in 1949, required broadcast media (radio and TV) to present issues of public importance, and in an honest, equitable and balanced way. The media generally met that...
View ArticleCurrency Manipulation Hurts America Workers
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will have three signatory nations (Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore) that are flagrant currency manipulators, yet that trade agreement completely fails to address the issue....
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