What the data says about immigration’s impact on the economy
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Republicans in Congress want to tie aid to Ukraine and Israel with immigration reform, and time is running out to make a deal. Immigration is a topic fraught with emotion, but we decided to take a look at immigration through the lens of economics. What does the evidence show about the costs and benefits of immigration? What about it’s effect on wages and jobs? Plus, Google loses an antitrust case against Epic Games.
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| 0:00.0 | An epic loss for Google. |
| 0:04.0 | For Marketplace, I'm Sabrie Beneshore in for David Brancaccio. |
| 0:08.0 | Google has lost an antitrust lawsuit brought by Epic Games. |
| 0:12.0 | Epic makes the popular Fort Knight video game. It accused the |
| 0:15.0 | search giant of being a monopoly, specifically when it comes to Google's App Store. |
| 0:19.0 | Epic says Google has app developers over a barrel if they want to be on Google's app store |
| 0:23.9 | extracting exorbitant fees and other concessions. Epic actually sued Apple |
| 0:28.6 | over the same issues but mostly lost that case. |
| 0:32.5 | The difference between the two cases, |
| 0:34.4 | one was decided by a jury, the other by a judge. |
| 0:37.6 | Marketplace in Nova Safo has the details. |
| 0:40.2 | It took a federal jury in San Francisco |
| 0:42.1 | less than four hours to reach a unanimous verdict against |
| 0:45.4 | Google in a case that could upend the way customers access and use apps across mobile devices. |
| 0:52.1 | Epic Games accused Google as it did Apple of financially |
| 0:55.0 | squeezing app developers forcing them to pay high fees of up to 30% of online |
| 1:00.2 | transactions and using illegal tactics to ward off competing payment systems and |
| 1:05.0 | App Stores. |
| 1:06.0 | Central in the Google case was the charge that it ties together the ability for |
| 1:09.8 | apps to be on its App Store with a requirement that they use Google's billing service. |
| 1:15.2 | In the Apple case, a judge said Epic had not presented enough evidence that Apple ran a monopoly. |
| 1:21.6 | An appeals court reaffirmed that decision and both Apple and |
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