No country is or becomes a good place to live unless it has a strong economy and one that most of its people and immigrants are able to succeed in. One of the key economic aspects in any country is a balance between its cost of living and the salaries that its citizens earn. The growing problem in America is that we have a high cost of living and an increasing number of adults working in low wage jobs. I found this very concerning:
Many on the Left though believe that one of the keys to economic growth is essentially unlimited, unrestricted immigration from all over the world as Chuck Shumer and others here have stated:
“If that’s J’Biden’s solution to growing the US economy, an illegal invasion horde, America is totally ■■■■■■■ ”
“either that or a massive economic collapse of the united states economy.” @biggestal99
So in the minds of many on the Left is that flooding the labor force with people who are largely uneducated, have no marketable skills, and don’t speak English is the key to economic growth here in the US. It’s like those on the Left think we are still living in the 1920’s with a low cost of living and no welfare state. The reality is that unless a person pays more in taxes than they receive in government provided “free stuff” for themselves and their children they are then a net negative economically speaking. Many on the Left love to bring up Demark on countries to emulate. Go look at their immigration laws and see how they do things there.
I know that here in North Jersey I see more and more adults working in low wage jobs that used to be ones that in the past were largely filled by high school and college kids. I don’t see this as an economic trajectory that is sustainable.
America’s unemployment rate is at a half-century low, but it also has a job-quality problem that affects nearly half the population, with a study finding 44% of U.S. workers are employed in low-wage jobs that pay median annual wages of $18,000.
*Contrary to popular opinion, these workers aren’t teenagers or young adults just starting their careers, write Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, which conducted the analysis. *
Most of the 53 million Americans working in low-wage jobs are adults in their prime working years, or between about 25 to 54, they noted. Their median hourly wage is $10.22 per hour — that’s above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour but well below what’s considered the living wage for many regions.
I don’t pretend to be any kind of economic genius but I think bringing production back to America would be a big help. Too much cheap junk produced by foreign labor tempted us into acquiring cheap credit.
It’s largely used as a talking point by both sides, but there’s nothing economically business wise to see that happening in substantial numbers. Another question would be how many of those jobs pay a comfortable US wage?
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