The Real Reason for Persistent Poverty Is Immigration
"We Americans are now supposedly discovering poverty for at least the fourth time
since World War II. Now Hurricane Katrina has purportedly raised America's consciousness once again," says columnist Robert Samuelson. "[T]he overall poverty rate should be drifting down. It isn't. The main reason, as I've written before, is immigration. We have uncontrolled entry of poor, unskilled workers across our southern border. Although many succeed, many don't, and many poor Latino immigrants have children, who are also poor. In 2004, 25 percent of the poverty population was Hispanic, up from 12 percent in 1980. Over this period, Hispanics represented almost three-quarters of the increase in the poverty population."
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