Anyone catch this gem? Concerning unskilled workers' cost to taxpayers...?
Quotes a solid study. 1/10th are US born. Read on.
...Rector has just published a study, “The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer,” that is ostensibly not about immigration at all. He takes the most detailed look yet at the economics of the 17.7 million American households made up of people without a high-school degree. With numbers from the Census Bureau, the Congressional Research Service, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other government agencies, Rector found what they make, what they spend, and how much they receive in government services.
The reason Rector chose to look at low-skilled workers is that it is estimated that nearly two-thirds of illegal immigrants fall into that category. (By way of comparison, slightly less than ten percent of native-born Americans are in that group.)...
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What have vietnamese accomplish in USA?
As much as I hate to say it, the truth is that there are too many workers and too few engineers, scientists, high skilled managers and so on...Production activity can be shipped over to low labor cost countries which ensures us low prices and an higher purchase power. In turn, developping countries buy the know-how they do not have in developped countries to improve their countries through advanced equipments, goods (material or intellectual) from the tertiary or even quaternary sectors.
Workers in the developped countries are not any more the backbone of the economy they used to be and for which they claimed more recognition.
Unqualified workers are even now in a lower category since their possibilities to serve the 20% most educated people who rub 80% of the economy is limited.
It seems to be that no matter what you do, the level of requirements (literacy, math abilities, computer literacy) is constantly increasing, faster than most people can adapt.