Why Naturalizing Immigrants Won't Make You Poorer (Unless You're an Immigrant)

Very interesting facts and figures in this article, with easy to understand graphs.   - - Donna Poisl

By Jordan Weissmann, The Atlantic

With Congress and the president diving into the immigration reform debate this week, we can expect a little fear-mongering about cheap migrant workers stealing American jobs and holding down wages. So every time you hear a line along those lines, remember this handy little chart from the Hamilton Project at Brookings. It show that immigrants might make most American workers a bit richer in the long run.

The graph covers the impact of immigration between 1990 to 2006, when our country's Mexican population soared. The purple bars are drawn from an economic model crafted by George Borjas and Lawrence Katz, while the light blue ones come from the work of Gianmarco Ottoviano and Giovani Peri.
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