The Case Against Immigration (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Roy Beck
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Journalism
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Immigration or emigration, Unemployment or unemployed workers, Mexican Americans, Economic conditions, Aliens, illegal, Asian Americans, Labor unions
Many Americans had, by the 1990’s, come to look back nostalgically on the American economy of the period from 1945 to 1965, comparing it favorably with the economically stressful era that began in the early and middle 1970’s. In the golden era of the two post-World War II decades, it was asserted, one breadwinner had been able to support a wife and children on a single income; in the last decade of the twentieth century, by contrast, the average American family needed at least two, and sometimes three or more, earners to make ends meet, as average real wages remained practically...
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