2020 DEMOCRATIC Presidential Primary Candidates
Worker-Protection Immigration Grade Cards
How each candidate's immigration positions would loosen or tighten the labor supply and affect market pressures to raise wages and recruit from underutilized U.S. populations.
Updated: September 9, 2019
(Ratings & grades updated weekly -- includes candidates whose Real Clear Politics average polling exceeded 2% on September 1.)
THE PROBLEM: For too many Americans, the economy is not working. The government's unemployment rate is low, but it doesn't count millions of workers who wanted a full-time jobs last month but couldn't find one.1 The rate is especially low for African Americans and for Millennials of all ethnicities without a college degree.2 The economy is also not working well for tens of millions of other Americans where inflation-adjusted wages are still lower than in the 1970s.3
THE QUESTION: Which should government immigration policies be designed to do?
[ ] Push businesses to raise wages and work harder to recruit underserved/underutilized Americans even if it causes prices to rise, or
[ ] Continue to allow nearly 2 million new immigrants, illegal migrants and guest workers each year to make it easier for businesses to fill jobs and hold down costs.
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