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>>tysone+(OP)
Wage growth would help, but for some reason, these articles never even mention immigration. The scale of immigration both legal and illegal I believe has the greatest impact on the lowest sectors of society. The lack of discussion on the impact so many potential new workers is having on wage growth leads one to think they believe labor cost is the one thing immune to the law of supply and demand.

>>tosser+aH
It’s interesting the immigration cannot even be mentioned without getting down voted.

It seems obvious to me that fewer low skill workers would result in higher wages for those who could most benefit from it.

>>tosser+6I
Nothing with so dense a web of causes and effects can be obvious. Might fewer low skilled workers driving the wages higher for those remaining also drive up the costs of the goods and services they produce? Would their new higher wages offset those higher prices or might they be worse off than before?

I don't know. No one else does either.