The poorest half have never had any.

Pops wrote:That's not income, it's wealth: accumulated profit.
The poorest half have never had any.
Plantagenet wrote:10+ million
Pops wrote:Plantagenet wrote:10+ million
1 or 2% of cheap labor added to the bottom 50% may have made that group poorer by some slight fraction....
Plantagenet wrote:Thank you for being honest enough to admit the principle is correct.
Now lets do the math right.....there are ca. 131 million workers in the US.
jedrider wrote:What are you guys even arguing about?
Liz wrote:We should put American workers first by ensuring that workers already here get the first opportunity to fill any available positions. We should empower workers, not employers, by coupling any expansion of legal immigration with real accountability on employers who break the rules, exploit workers, or don’t adhere to basic labor standards.
Pops wrote:The way to fix that is not a wall but prosecuting business that abuse ilegals.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:But of course, neither the Dems nor the GOP WANT a credible E-Verify system (for different reasons), so it doesn't happen.
Why is it that law and order is important, except when it's about illegal aliens?
E-Verify spending dramatically increased under President George W. Bush and Obama.
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Under Bush, workplace raids on factories and meatpacking plants received much attention. But after Obama took office, the Department of Homeland Security unveiled a new strategy and ditched the workplace raids, which also tended to punish employees, in favor of "paper raids" -- I-9 paperwork audits of employers to determine if they complied with employment eligibility verification laws.The change [under obama] was dramatic: the number of I-9 audits soared from 503 in 2008 to more than 8,000 in 2009.
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In the 1990s, INS handled a higher number of civil cases, while Bush focused on criminal investigations against employers and workers. Obama has pursued civil audits and criminal investigations against employers.
President Trump’s budget proposes an 8 percent funding cut to the E-Verify program — even though the administration is usually bent on boosting spending on anything to curb illegal immigration.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/ ... ented.htmlthe Trump family did not even cease employing undocumented laborers at its own company until this January, when negative press forced the Trump Organization to adopt E-Verify — a system that allows employers to confirm the legal status of job applicants.
Pops wrote:That's not income, it's wealth: accumulated profit.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:Pops wrote:That's not income, it's wealth: accumulated profit.
Ah, the assumptions liberals make.
How do you suppose many people GET to be relatively wealthy?
Pops wrote:Thanks for posting some links.
Top one percent is $10M according to your link.
According to this, half that is inheritance plus interest:
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