The American Thinker
by Michael McLaughlin
August 1, 2013

Senator Chuck Schumer, the real leader of the "Gang of 8," recently said,

This has the potential for being one of the greatest civil rights movements we've ever seen. I could see, at the end of this summer, a million people on the Mall in August asking for the bill.

The comparison of the civil rights movement to illegal aliens seeking amnesty is ludicrous and offensive.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/m...l#ixzz2ar0RnO5y

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Since 1969 the real wages of male American workers have declined according to a study by Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney.

Over the past 40 years, a period in which U.S. GDP per capita more than doubled after adjusting for inflation, the annual earnings ofthe median prime-aged male has actually fallen by 28 percent. Indeed, males at the middle of the wage distribution now earn about the same as their counterparts in the 1950s! This decline reflects both stagnant wages for men on the job, and the fact that, compared with 1969, three times as many men of working age don't work at all.

The most astonishing statistic contained in the study is that for men without a high school degree, "The median earnings of all men in this category have declined by 66 percent [not a misprint]. At the same time, this group has experienced a 23 percentage point decline in the probability of having any labor-market earnings." Men with just a high school degree have not fared much better with a 43 percent decline in earnings.

If we truly had a labor shortage, why aren't wages going up along with increased participation in the labor force? The answer is obvious. When you increase significantly the supply of labor above the demand for jobs, wages go down along with participation. The marketplace works for the bottom line of businesses. But it does not work for the American worker who is not competing on a level playing field.

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unemployment measured without the 'enhancements' added in since the mid 1990's:

@algernonpj

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