On September 27, 2016, Richard Eskow writes on Moyers & Company:
… Economically vulnerable populations are often told that immigrants “take our jobs” and drag down wages.
Is it true? The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine appointed an interdisciplinary task force to look at that question. It found that, on the contrary, “immigration has an overall positive impact on long-run economic growth in the United States.”
Immigration, the report says, has “little to no negative effects on overall wages and employment of native-born workers in the longer term.” Native-born teenagers who have not finished high school may work fewer hours, at least in the short term. (They won’t lose jobs.) …
Of course, jobs can be “stolen” if enough immigrants enter the country. That is why the governments sets quotas. We have a legal immigration system whose mission is to “promote a highly talented workforce and a dynamic work culture” -U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) (https://www.uscis.gov/aboutus). The mission does not support illegal immigration, which is the REAL issue.
But the REAL reason American jobs are being “stolen” (replaced is a more accurate term) is: Technologies that result in efficient non-human substitutes for humans and the globalization of manufacturing at low wage and tax levels is what steals jobs. We need to start focusing on OWNING the “machine” assets (the non-human factor of production) that will exponentially replace humans, and abate the further concentration of OWNERSHIP among the already wealthy OWNERSHIP class.
This can be accomplished by enacting the Capital Homestead Act (aka Economic Democracy Act) at http://www.cesj.org/learn/capital-homesteading/, http://www.cesj.org/learn/capital-homesteading/capital-homestead-act-a-plan-for-getting-ownership-income-and-power-to-every-citizen/, http://www.cesj.org/learn/capital-homesteading/capital-homestead-act-summary/ and http://www.cesj.org/learn/capital-homesteading/ch-vehicles/.
