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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (509819)	9/2/2009 3:24:25 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1583677

Yep, that's all true, but most of that was true even when unemployment was down to 5% several years back. The official unemployment rate. That doesn't count illegals, who compete for those jobs ... and the floodgates were open. (As I understand illegal immigration has slowed a lot). I'm not saying this because I think we should all tolerate lower living standards to compete against, for example, Mexico. I'm just bringing up the stratification between immigrant and native-born workers, which the study highlighted IMO. And our economy has accommodated this stratification, for better or for worse. Probably true.