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Are we a "postmodern charity-state" or a nation state?
How do we balance our compassion for the global poor and displaced with our responsibilities to our fellow citizens?
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Washington chooses loose borders over worker power, and working-class voters are on the move
Voters without college degrees outnumber those with by 2-to-1, and their political allegiances have been shifting. Polls indicate that the realignment is about to accelerate, and immigration appears to be a major factor. The managerial class, meanwhile, presses on with policies to give the investment class greater access to the global labor force.
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Biden avoids Ponzi demography in SOTU; his policies do not
Although President Biden didn't deploy the Ponzi-scheme rhetoric of the Washington Post in his State of the Union address, his immigration-expansion policies would push America further into overshoot.
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Who doesn't want a tight labor market?
Many in the establishment media have bought into the expansionist idea that the millions of job openings demonstrate the need for more foreign workers. Yet if the labor force participation rate could rise to the level it was during President Obama's first year in office, all of those jobs could be filled. How quickly we give up on our fellow Americans.
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The future belongs to nations who embrace stabilization
The benefits of an immigration policy that prioritizes per capita prosperity over GDP include higher wages, longer productive lives, more intergenerational caregiving among families, shorter commutes, and more breathing room.
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Lower wages are a feature of immigration expansion, not a bug
Whenever wages threaten to rise, we’re advised that the best way to keep labor costs down is to increase immigration.
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Expansionist policies are unpopular, but why?
What motivates the majority of voters who want Congress to lower immigration?
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Immigration is sinking expansionist Democrats, but what will surface?
With most Americans saying the Biden administration is "creating an open border," the conventional wisdom is that immigration overreach will help pave the way for Republican victories in 2022, and possibly 2024, but will one form of expansionism simply replace another?
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How Many Shipping Containers Does it Take to Make America Great?
A mesmerizing video about supply chains gives one a sense of what having a population of 330 million consumers implies. Where do we go from here?
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House Set to Repeat History of Immigration Injustices
The economic conditions brought about by the pandemic give us a glimpse of what a landscape even marginally tilted toward workers might look like: more flexibility, better working conditions, higher wages, and last but not least: the dignity that goes hand in hand with meaningful work. The immigration framework drafted by the House for the budget reconciliation bill would short-circuit that progress.