Earlier: Goodbye, Gompers—If Webb Can’t Focus Democrats On White Working Class, Nobody Can
Last week, the Economic Policy Institute [Tweet them] posted Low-wage workers have seen historically fast real wage growth in the pandemic business cycle, by Elise Gould and Katherine DeCourcy. [March 23, 2023 ]
This reported:
Between 2019 and 2022, low-wage workers experienced historically fast real wage growth. The 10th percentile real hourly wage grew 9.0% over the three-year period. This tremendous real wage growth at the lower end of the wage distribution was exceptional, significantly faster than in any other business cycle peak since 1979…
VDARE.com prefers longtitudinal charts to bar charts, because bar charts can cherry-pick individual years and not show underlying trends. That seems to be what EPI has done here, arbitarily starting with 2019, thus omitting evidence that real low-income wage growth began in 2017; and also that real wage growth may now subsequently be stalling.
Reason: EPI wants to attribute this low-income growth to the plethora of income redistribution measures put in place during the legislative pork orgy which started in mid-2020 under cover of COVID. But it does quietly concede:
…from 2017 to 2019…the labor market was tightening…
Interestingly, the EPI also had to concede:
Low-wage workers experienced fast wage growth in all states, regardless of changes to their minimum wage.
Glaringly omitted here is the effect of President Trump’s immigration activities. These drastically cut the saturation of America’s labor market by newcomers. This was graphically demonstrated for us on November 8, 2020 NATIONAL DATA: October Jobs—Trump’s Immigration Triumph Continues. Farewell To That Too?
After losing upward momentum in Trump’s first years, the immigrant share of U.S. employment plunged from mid 2019.
Immigrant work force population stopped
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Talk about bad luck! What are the odds of the Nashville school shooter being a transgendered person who is ALSO mentally ill?
Arguably, there were hints.
In a form of modern Lysenkoism, young transgenders overwhelmingly come from homes with signs that say: “In This House, We Believe: Black Lives Matter, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights, No Human Is Illegal, Science Is Real, Love Is Love, Kindness Is Everything.”
Specifically, a study of adolescent and young adult transgenders found that the adults in the home who identify as “parents” were 91.4% white; 70.9% had a bachelor’s degree or higher and 85.9% favored gay marriage. Parent respondents were 91.7% female.
This is a weirdly specific profile. Only about a third of Americans have B.A.s; a third of the population is white and female, and about a third supported gay marriage (until it was made a capital offense to oppose it—changing even Barack Obama’s mind!).
How many other biological conditions are correlated with political ideology?
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed legislation to fight the illegal-alien invasion at the southwest border. The proposal mandates that all Florida businesses use E-Verify [Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Legislation to Counteract Biden’s Border Crisis, FlGov.com, February 23, 2023]. It’s good as far as it goes, but only one step in the right direction. E-Verify has problems, although not the ones we hear about (the minimal false positives Alex Nowrasteh and the National Immigration Forum complain of). DeSantis should know that E-Verify is not as effective as it’s touted to be. Those who back it must also find ways to counteract illegals and employers who wiggle around it.
DeSantis had already required that all state and local agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors, to use E-Verify to stop them from hiring illegals. Also helping is his Executive Order that stops state agencies from helping resettle illegals in Florida. Both were good ideas.
But E-Verify can fail because of government-issued Employment Authorization Documents, known as EAD cards. Asylum and refugee applicants and U-Visa recipients—non-immigrant visas for crime victims who help the cops—can apply for them.
But note that those asylum-refugee applicants who receive the cards might not succeed in their application.
And needless to say, U-Visa is riddled with fraud. All visas invite some fraud, but the U-Visa is especially notorious. All an illegal need do is head for the police precinct and claim to be a crime victim, and snap, Uncle Sam stamps another U-Visa. Police are simply supposed to accept an illegal’s word that he’s a victim. And of course, we know an illegal would never lie for a free pass to stay on the sacred Magic Dirt!
In his piece about California’s legislation that will permit illegals to become cops, VDARE’s Federale discussed at length why illegals can work in the country legally. An EAD, he explained, “does not turn an illegal alien into a legal alien,” and “DACA recipients are illegal aliens despite retaining employment authorization.” Simple fact is, once any alien has an EAD card,
Earlier: Goodbye, Gompers—If Webb Can’t Focus Democrats On White Working Class, Nobody Can
Last week, the Economic Policy Institute [Tweet them] posted Low-wage workers have seen historically fast real wage growth in the pandemic business cycle, by Elise Gould and Katherine DeCourcy. [March 23, 2023 ]
This reported:
Between 2019 and 2022, low-wage workers experienced historically fast real wage growth. The 10th percentile real hourly wage grew 9.0% over the three-year period. This tremendous real wage growth at the lower end of the wage distribution was exceptional, significantly faster than in any other business cycle peak since 1979…
VDARE.com prefers longtitudinal charts to bar charts, because bar charts can cherry-pick individual years and not show underlying trends. That seems to be what EPI has done here, arbitarily starting with 2019, thus omitting evidence that real low-income wage growth began in 2017; and also that real wage growth may now subsequently be stalling.
Reason: EPI wants to attribute this low-income growth to the plethora of income redistribution measures put in place during the legislative pork orgy which started in mid-2020 under cover of COVID. But it does quietly concede:
…from 2017 to 2019…the labor market was tightening…
Interestingly, the EPI also had to concede:
Low-wage workers experienced fast wage growth in all states, regardless of changes to their minimum wage.
Glaringly omitted here is the effect of President Trump’s immigration activities. These drastically cut the saturation of America’s labor market by newcomers. This was graphically demonstrated for us on November 8, 2020 NATIONAL DATA: October Jobs—Trump’s Immigration Triumph Continues. Farewell To That Too?
After losing upward momentum in Trump’s first years, the immigrant share of U.S. employment plunged from mid 2019.
Immigrant work force population stopped
Subscribe to Ann Coulter‘s Substack UNSAFE.
Talk about bad luck! What are the odds of the Nashville school shooter being a transgendered person who is ALSO mentally ill?
Arguably, there were hints.
In a form of modern Lysenkoism, young transgenders overwhelmingly come from homes with signs that say: “In This House, We Believe: Black Lives Matter, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights, No Human Is Illegal, Science Is Real, Love Is Love, Kindness Is Everything.”
Specifically, a study of adolescent and young adult transgenders found that the adults in the home who identify as “parents” were 91.4% white; 70.9% had a bachelor’s degree or higher and 85.9% favored gay marriage. Parent respondents were 91.7% female.
This is a weirdly specific profile. Only about a third of Americans have B.A.s; a third of the population is white and female, and about a third supported gay marriage (until it was made a capital offense to oppose it—changing even Barack Obama’s mind!).
How many other biological conditions are correlated with political ideology?
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed legislation to fight the illegal-alien invasion at the southwest border. The proposal mandates that all Florida businesses use E-Verify [Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Legislation to Counteract Biden’s Border Crisis, FlGov.com, February 23, 2023]. It’s good as far as it goes, but only one step in the right direction. E-Verify has problems, although not the ones we hear about (the minimal false positives Alex Nowrasteh and the National Immigration Forum complain of). DeSantis should know that E-Verify is not as effective as it’s touted to be. Those who back it must also find ways to counteract illegals and employers who wiggle around it.
DeSantis had already required that all state and local agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors, to use E-Verify to stop them from hiring illegals. Also helping is his Executive Order that stops state agencies from helping resettle illegals in Florida. Both were good ideas.
But E-Verify can fail because of government-issued Employment Authorization Documents, known as EAD cards. Asylum and refugee applicants and U-Visa recipients—non-immigrant visas for crime victims who help the cops—can apply for them.
But note that those asylum-refugee applicants who receive the cards might not succeed in their application.
And needless to say, U-Visa is riddled with fraud. All visas invite some fraud, but the U-Visa is especially notorious. All an illegal need do is head for the police precinct and claim to be a crime victim, and snap, Uncle Sam stamps another U-Visa. Police are simply supposed to accept an illegal’s word that he’s a victim. And of course, we know an illegal would never lie for a free pass to stay on the sacred Magic Dirt!
In his piece about California’s legislation that will permit illegals to become cops, VDARE’s Federale discussed at length why illegals can work in the country legally. An EAD, he explained, “does not turn an illegal alien into a legal alien,” and “DACA recipients are illegal aliens despite retaining employment authorization.” Simple fact is, once any alien has an EAD card,
Also by Robert Dierks: CPAC Attendees Wanted Orban And Immigration Patriotism, Not Abbott Or McCarthy (Who Didn’t Attend)
President Trump held his first political rally of his 2024 campaign in Waco, Texas at the Waco Regional Airport this past weekend. [Video here, transcript here] I have attended over a dozen Trump events and his speech covered many of his regular talking points. However, it also debuted some new second-term policy proposals, such as baby bonuses and building new cities.
Rally Atmosphere
This Waco rally was similar to many of his other airport rallies. It was very heavily attended, with most vehicles sporting Texas plates, although I did see a plate from Georgia. But still, many had traveled many hours to attend (this is Texas). There was a lot of walking to get to the venue—a mile and a half in my case. But rally attendees do get to see his plane land and take off.
The atmosphere was different from Trump rallies when he was President. The biggest difference that I noticed: the lack of protesters. This could be because of the rally was located in a county that gave over 60% of its vote to Trump in 2020, or because the left and their proxy groups have gotten lazier during the Biden regime.
Crowd Response
The crowd at the rally was largely white and had many attendees sporting cowboy hats and Western apparel. However, as with all Trump rallies, there is a contingent of black, Hispanic and Asian attendees.
Still, it does seem that President Trump may be recognizing the demographics of his base: “A lot of us come from Europe; directly and indirectly—so we love Europe.” With American becoming increasingly less white, it could be that a candidate openly courting the white vote will become more politically feasible.
President Trump’s biggest applause lines came from his
The Biden Regime is finally touting border-crossing numbers. Typically, it would release them in a Friday night dump, often late in the month, to avoid public scrutiny. Now it celebrates February’s lower numbers to argue that its new policies are working [Sharp drop in illegal border crossings continued in February, U.S. says, by Rebecca Santana, Associated Press, March 15, 2023]. But the numbers are cooked by offering more legal pathways for would-be illegals. Simultaneously, and tellingly, the Regime is taking steps to make sure more illegals actually stay here. This little game might provide a fig leaf for the leftist Regime Media, but it shouldn’t fool Americans. The fakery demonstrates why it is imperative to impeach Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
In January and February, border agents encountered roughly 155,000 illegals each month. These numbers are much higher than when Trump was president, but they do represent a decline from Biden’s average. Prior to January, America witnessed 10 straight months of 200,000-plus encounters. December set a record with more than 250,000.
And those are just the ones that were caught. Hundreds of thousands of more slipped past agents to disappear.
But compared to 250,000, a 38 percent decrease to 155,000 looks like a significant improvement, which is why the Regime was so eager to share the numbers.
Biden officials attribute the decline to the president’s policies, particularly his parole program. In January, the president began offering “parole”—supposedly a temporary legal status—to 30,000 “migrants” per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Considering how many “migrants” on temporary status never seem to leave, “parole” will likely turn into permanent legal residence.
The program does have a stick to go along with its carrot. Illegals from those four countries caught at the border are immediately deported, asylum claims regardless.
While the Regime points to “parole” as a success, it’s really just legalizing the invasion
See also: No, Emily Oster, We Don’t Need A COVID Amnesty—We Need A COVID Nuremberg
I know it’s gone out of fashion since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine (meaning there was a brand-new shiny thing for everyone to virtue-signal about), but let’s go back to the days of the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve been inspired to take this nostalgic journey by a new study that highlights some fascinating new racial differences in the U.S. in the response to the virus [Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality, by Jose Aburto et al., PNAS, 2022]. Bottom line: I was right to stress the importance of honest reporting of the data on racial incidence. The Ruling Class was wrong to suppress it. And because the Ruling Class did suppress the data, people died—especially, in an ironic twist, the very minorities that the Ruling Class claims to care so much about. (See VDARE.com’s reporting on Race and COVID-19 here.)
But let’s go on a little journey before we turn to that. You may remember—and this is back in the days when the disease definitely emerged from a Chinese wet market and anyone who suggested otherwise was spreading fiendish “misinformation”—that COVID-19 did not “discriminate by race,” even though the U.S. health system was already showing “familiar biases” in who got ill [The Coronavirus Doesn't Discriminate, But U.S. Health Care Showing Familiar Biases, by Blake Farmer, NPR, April 2, 2020]. Even so, it absolutely, definitely didn’t discriminate by race.
Now, it occurred to me that COVID-19