“The tight labor market is pushing up wages for some workers and has provided opportunities to teenagers, students, ex-convicts, long-term unemployed, the disabled and others for whom the barriers to employment once looked daunting,”
But then it goes on to say that America should import lots of foreigners to make life easier for the people who run big companies by driving down wages.
Employers have raised the alarm about acute shortages of skilled and unskilled labor up and down the wage scale — construction workers; maintenance and repair workers; truckers; firefighters; furniture-makers; nurses; home health aides; farm workers.
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when dozens of industries warn that worker shortages are constraining growth and investment … It makes sense to recalibrate immigration policy to meet the labor market’s future demands, including by admitting more high-skilled workers.
This apparent contradiction between the leftist WaPo's alleged concern for all those who are benefiting from limiting immigration and the desires of the 1% to make more money isn't surprising.
Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, owns the WaPo and he's calling for the government to let him bring in more cheap foreign labor so he can make even more money.
We currently import about 1,000,000 foreigners a year to drive down US wages and keep Americans unemployed and on welfare. But that's not enough for the 1%ers who think that they're paying hard working Americans too much.
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