Report: Middle Class Wages Plummet With Surging Illegal Immigration

by Warner Todd Huston | April 24, 2015 12:35 pm

This should surprise no one, but a new report finds that as illegal immigration surges the middle class is seriously damaged.

This all isn’t just recent, either, as this new study finds that middle class wages have declined steadily for the past 40 years[1] as immigration has surged.

Wages and share of income for the bottom 90 percent of American wage-earners declined over the past 40 years, as the foreign-born population increased dramatically, data requested by the Senate Judiciary Committee shows.

Since 1970, the foreign-born population of the U.S. increased 325 percent, the Congressional Research Service found, while wages for the bottom 90 percent of earners decreased by 8 percent and their share of income by 16 percent.

…The CRS charted the correlation between wages and the number of foreign-born workers in the U.S. between 1945 and 2010. Before 1970, wages rose sharply as the number of foreign-born persons declined. But after 1970, that population increased dramatically as wages stagnated, increased slightly and then dropped.

Who is surprised?

Endnotes:
  1. middle class wages have declined steadily for the past 40 years: http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/23/crs-report-wages-declined-as-immigration-surged/

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