Tapsearch Com EditorThe Hispanic poverty rate fell
October 2nd 2007 22:35
...from 30 to 20 percent in the last decade or so. Great, except (A) it's still above the national average, so more immigration means a rising poverty rate and (B) here's how they did it:
Terrific. Many of them come illegally. Then they bid down the wages for low-skill labor, keeping poor citizens (especially blacks) in poverty. Then they move up the ladder to better-paying jobs, keeping poor Americans (especially blacks) in the low-wage market. Then more immigrants come illegally to keep the low wages low. They send billions of dollars back to their home countries.
Though of course by working for cheaper they help us all save a few cents here and there. What would we do without them?
Consider the Hispanic success in obtaining skilled, blue-collar jobs, as measured by the census category for precision production, craft and repair occupations. From 1994 to 2006, as the total number of these jobs grew, the percentage held by whites fell from 79 percent to 65 percent. The percentage held by blacks remained constant at about 8 percent, and the percentage held by Hispanics more than doubled, rising to 25 percent from 11 percent. As whites left these relatively well-paid jobs, Hispanics rather than blacks moved into them.
Terrific. Many of them come illegally. Then they bid down the wages for low-skill labor, keeping poor citizens (especially blacks) in poverty. Then they move up the ladder to better-paying jobs, keeping poor Americans (especially blacks) in the low-wage market. Then more immigrants come illegally to keep the low wages low. They send billions of dollars back to their home countries.
Though of course by working for cheaper they help us all save a few cents here and there. What would we do without them?
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