Cal88 said:

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DiabloWags said:

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Basic Econ 101 tells you that when you cut the SUPPLY of LABOR, the PRICE goes up.

Anti-Immigration is INFLATIONARY.

In fact, assuming 1.3 million in deportations this means that the Unemployment Rate will remain at only 4.2% for the rest of this year with only 70,000 a month in non-farm payroll increases. For 2026, only 50,000.

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Yes of course, wages going up would be a terrible thing from your BoomerCon perspective.

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I bet you never took Econ 1 at CAL.

MinotStateBeav said:

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bearister said:

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Concrete Challenges: Why Millennials and Gen Z Shy Away from Construction Careers - CURT


https://curt.org/2024/02/26/concrete-challenges-why-millennials-and-gen-z-shy-away-from-construction-careers/


Why Thousands of High-Paying Construction Jobs Go Unfilled - Arcoro


https://arcoro.com/why-arent-young-people-going-into-construction/

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Those construction jobs go unfilled just like all the tech jobs go unfilled and magically we need indians imported in the country to fill them!

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I can't wait to see the guy that loves "movies" picking strawberries in Watsonville.

DiabloWags said:

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Basic Econ 101 tells you that when you cut the SUPPLY of LABOR, the PRICE goes up.

Anti-Immigration is INFLATIONARY.

In fact, assuming 1.3 million in deportations this means that the Unemployment Rate will remain at only 4.2% for the rest of this year with only 70,000 a month in non-farm payroll increases. For 2026, only 50,000.

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Yep, in 2021 executives were hysterical because of the worker shortage. High immigration in 2022-2023 normalized the worker shortage, helped to normalize inflation, and gave America the greatest Covid recovery in the world. During the same period real incomes at the bottom half surged past what they were pre-covid.

Naturally, maga hated all these positive developments because the country looked more brown.

Exactly.

Sadly, Trump wants to emulate President McKinley the "Tariff King".

He thinks that the growth that the U.S. experienced in the late 1800's and into the early 1900's was because of tariffs . . . and had nothing to do with the railroads or a massive amount of immigration.

He couldn't be more wrong.

Railroads and Immigration in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries Study Guide | Quizlet

Are there protests still happening in LA?

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