Immigration is (still) a labor market story
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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In today’s show, we flag one economic benchmark investors are watching, then dive into some recent stories that highlight the unequal ways the U.S. grants immigrant and refugee status. Don’t forget, what happens at the border impacts our labor force. Speaking of work, employees nationwide are voting on unionization. Finally, a new study validates dog owners’ premonitions about their special pups and makes us smile.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 3% for First Time Since 2018” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Amazon Workers Reject Union in New York After Labor Victory at Separate Facility” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Biden to comply with forthcoming order to keep Covid border restrictions in place” from Politico
- “Afghans subject to stricter rules than Ukrainian refugees, advocates say” from NBC News
- “Your dog’s personality may have little to do with its breed” from AP News
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| 0:00.0 | Come on. |
| 0:03.4 | And you're not washing too cool enough. |
| 0:06.8 | But I am Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to make me start where we make today make sense in my non-Washington coolness. |
| 0:15.4 | Fair enough. I'm just not everywhere not cool. Anyway, I'm car rised off. Thanks for joining us on this Monday. |
| 0:20.9 | We will do the standard fair a little bit of news. Maybe I make me smile although full disclosure right at the top. I don't have one |
| 0:27.4 | because nothing to be me smile today. And then we're going to go. So we will begin with the news. |
| 0:35.5 | You want to start you start how about you start? |
| 0:38.0 | Sure. I thought it's not exactly like today thing. It's more of an ongoing issue that I've been |
| 0:45.0 | watching and |
| 0:46.0 | NBC had a story out. I guess it was a couple of days ago. Just sort of highlighting |
| 0:52.2 | the difference between how Afghan refugees and Ukrainian refugees are being treated in this country. |
| 1:02.1 | And really many other places. But here in the US in particular that |
| 1:07.0 | you know the Afghan refugees including many who worked with the United States during the war have to go through this you know |
| 1:14.8 | shortened process compared to many other |
| 1:17.6 | people seeking asylum or trying to become refugees come into this country. But still |
| 1:23.4 | not nearly as expedited as some of the Ukrainians coming into this country. And a lot of the people who worked with Afghans during the war are getting incredibly |
| 1:33.9 | frustrated. And there are some interesting statistics in this piece I'm trying to pull down. |
| 1:40.7 | So for example |
| 1:41.8 | Afghans who want to try to come into the country who haven't made it there yet have to pay like an administrative fee of |
| 1:50.4 | $575 to try to enter the US on humanitarian grounds. Ukrainians don't have to pay that administrative fee. And for reference the median annual per capita income in Afghanistan is about |
| 2:03.8 | $400. You can apply to get that fee waived but there's no indication of how often that happens. And just a lot of the people |
| 2:10.9 | including many veterans who are working trying to get their former colleagues into this country have really been complaining about that. Now that's just the difference between |
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