To: Willie Green; Wolfie; ex-snook; Jhoffa_; FITZ; arete; FreedomPoster; Red Jones; Pyro7480; ...
A decade ago, two Iowa State University agricultural economists estimated that removing all illegal farmworkers would raise wages for seasonal farmworkers by 30 percent in the first couple of years, and 15 percent in the medium term. But supermarket prices of summer-fall fruits and vegetables, they concluded, would rise by just 6 percent in the short run dropping to 3 percent over time, as imports took up some of the slack and some farmers mechanized their operations or shifted out of labor-intensive crops. (Winter-spring produce would be even less affected, they found, because so much already is imported.) Jobs Americans will not do bump
32 posted on
09/21/2006 6:05:24 AM PDT by
A. Pole
(If the lettuce cutters were paid $10 more per hour, the lettuce head would cost FIVE CENTS more.)
To: A. Pole
dropping to 3 percent over time, as imports took up some of the slack LOL! Mr. all aginst imports and outsourcing(A.Pole) is all of the sudden for importing food.
Do you really hate the American farmer and who he hires that much?
35 posted on
09/21/2006 6:14:07 AM PDT by
Dane
("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
To: A. Pole; All
53 posted on
09/21/2006 3:33:38 PM PDT by
Nowhere Man
(Pansy: b. 8-19-1987 - d. 8-27-2006, I'll miss you, little princess.... B-()
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