Foreign competition and technological advances have eliminated many of the jobs in which high school graduates . . . once could earn $40 an hour. or more. That is what the New York Times is telling us. It is not just a recent development. It is a development of some years. Since the end of the 1960sthe timeframe identified by the article. during this period we have seen this decline in employmentthe share of the U.S. population that is foreign born increased from less than 5 percent to more than 13 percent. As a total number. the size of the foreignborn population has quadrupled over the last four decades. Due to current Washington policy. these figures are only going to rise.
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