Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

For American workers, immigration is primarily a redistributive policy. Economic theory predicts that immigration will redistribute income by lowering the wages of competing American workers and increasing the wages of complementary American workers as well as profits for business owners and other “users” of immigrant labor.

- George J. Borjas, Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

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New January Data Still Shows Most Job Growth Going to Immigrants; 88% since 2020, 72% in the last year

Also, a near-record share of working-age U.S.-born men remain out of the labor force

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, Current Numbers

Op-ed: They don’t care about you: Dems want 470,100 illegal migrant workers because they keep wages low!

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, New York

They don’t care about you: Dems want 470,100 illegal migrant workers because they keep wages low!

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Working-Age, but Not Working, 1960 to 2024

Documenting the decades-long increase in the share of Americans not in the labor force, and its implications for immigration policy

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Labor Force Participation Deterioration Among the U.S.-Born at the State Level, 1960 to 2024

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration, State Level Employment Data

President Biden Directs Agencies to Fast Track Immigrant Visas for Foreign STEM Workers

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Fed Chairman Concedes Border Crisis Is Boosting Unemployment

‘We understand there's been quite an influx’

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

New data show no STEM worker shortage

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Op-ed: New Data Show No STEM Worker Shortage

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

New Wage Data Show No STEM Worker ‘Shortage’

Contradicts new National Academies report

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam