Shock: Immigrants Not Hurting U.S. Jobs

August 10th, 2006 | Filed under Business, Politics

I know this is really shocking for everyone out there but stay with me through these couple of quotes.

Big increases in immigration since 1990 have not hurt employment prospects for American workers, says a study released Thursday.

Kochhar cautioned that immigration could affect job markets in some local areas, but the study found no national trends supporting a link. States with big increases in immigration were just as likely to have low unemployment as states with little immigration, he said. -SFGate

While the information comes from the Pew Hispanic Research Center, which could definitely have an effect on the results of the study, I tend to trust their data. I used the PHRC as a source for market research while studying a line of dry Hispanic sauce mixes for a company in college. The research pointed to the fact that the product would fail, and I haven’t seen it in stores for well over a year. You do the math.

I found Pew to be a very reliable source and hopefully this info about immigration isn’t tainted by the fact that it comes from a “Hispanic research center.”

Via: SFGate