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Article: Immigration: who wins, who loses. (National Research Council's report on migrant labor)
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- Issues in Science and Technology
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Immigration adds on the order of $1 billion to $10 billion a year to the U.S. economy and has little negative effect on the income and job opportunities of native-born Americans, concludes a recent report by a National Research Council (NRC) panel.
According to The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston, editors), immigrant labor allows many goods and services to be produced more cheaply and provides the work force for some businesses that otherwise could not or would not exist on the same scale. Most immigrants compete for jobs primarily with each other and with a small group of less-educated ...