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...large, yes. Immigrant labor is a drag on wage growth, thus keeping a lid on inflation and interest rates. As a result, prices for goods and services are lower, and citizens can purchase more. And immigrants are consumers too: some 80% of what undocumented workers earn in the U.S. stays in the country. A recent study by economists at the University of North Carolina found that Hispanic residents, 45% of whom were undocumented, contributed $9.2 billion in spending to North Carolina's economy in 2004. By taking the least desirable jobs, says John Kasarda, a co-author of the study...
...imports not just the gizmos and gadgets but also a way of life, thanks to a shadow labor force that lets Americans eat out once a week because restaurants can hire dishwashers for sub-minimum wage. The U.S. depends on the maids and gardeners and carpenters and home-health-care workers whose children will probably become teachers and technicians and surgeons and Senators. If they all put down their tools tomorrow, the U.S. wouldn't be arguing about whether it is in a recession...
...Palmer headed in the fall of 2001, Religion 1529, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation.” The class, which was offered again in the spring of 2004, was innovative since students were responsible for questioning guests like Noam Chomsky and Robert Reich on issues like labor, diversity, and human development...
...last year's Liberian presidential poll, which elected Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Taylor financed the campaigns of several loyalists who ended up in parliament, says Corrine Dufka, a researcher for Human Rights Watch. "Once people see him on television, isolated and removed, it starts to demystify him," says Liberia's Labor Minister Samuel Koffi Woods. "It's only then that the mini warlords who are still here will understand that they too can be held accountable...
...labor might have been more efficiently given to hired professionals, several volunteers pointed out. It costs about $300 to pay for the airfare and food costs of each volunteer, and the value of the labor each student contributes—about 30 hours, in many cases—is likely less than that, according to Gayatri S. Datar ’07, a coordinator of undergraduate relief efforts...