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immigrants (especially illegal ones), companies offshoring to India, and
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investors “hollowing out”U.S. industries cannot answer:Why is it that,
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that has been going on, the unemployment rate has trended down over
the last three decades (see chart)? And why has it remained historically low
More Immigration Has Not Hurt Job Prospects for Natives
Foreign-Born Population as
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Here is an even more remarkable statistic: during the 1980s and
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During the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign, Democratic nominee
Walter Mondale asked, “What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around
Japanese computers?”
This is one more (depressing) example of zero-sum thinking.
Mondale assumed that Japan’s prosperity in the 1980s would be at the expense
of the United States.His comments echoed the fear of many people in
business and
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growth rates in the 1960s and
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sentiment and
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its exports to the United States.Were it not for the damage done to both the
U.S. and
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as other Asian economies (first South Korea and
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have become formidable competitors.