Three Reasons Why Immigrants Aren ’t Going to Take Your Job
Alex NowrastehPresident Trump recently said that there weretwo reasons for virtually halting all immigration to the United States in response to COVID-19. The first was to prevent the spread of the disease domestically.The second was to save American jobs for American citizens. We ’ve alreadyanalyzedthefirst claim, this post will look at whether reducing immigration further will help save jobs for Americans. The answer is no.Unemployment isspiking during theCOVID-19 crisis. Americans are reacting to the virus by changing their economic behavior by working at home where possible,spending less time in dense public places, ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 22, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Market-Based Visas: Problems, Criticisms, and Solutions
Steven Kopits of Princeton Energy Advisors wrote a fewcriticisms of our proposal to sell Gold Cards through a market-based program that I ’ve called animmigration tariff. An immigration tariff is an attempt, based largely on Nobel Prize-winningeconomist Gary Becker ’s idea to sell visas, to create a market-based visa that accounts for many of the most trenchant criticisms of liberalized immigration The idea is simply to create a new visa called a Gold Card without numerical quotas or caps. The Gold Card would supply permanent legal residency and work permission, but cannot be used to naturalize –like agreen car...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
On the Purpose of NATO & the Cost of European Defense
The anxiety leading up to this week ’s NATO summit is unusually intense, thanks in large part to President Trump’s fractious relationship with European allies. Trump’s political values are often in tension with that of his transatlantic counterparts, and the White House is inching ever closer to an all-out trade war with Europe and Canada, but the real drama of the NATO summit will center on Trump’s brash accusations of allied free-riding. He recently sent letters to many European capitals berating them for not meeting their pledge to spend at least 2 percent of GDP on defense.In apost at the International Institut...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
Prior Presidents ’ “Travel Bans” Are Different From President Trump’s Ban
President Trump ’stravel ban Proclamation that bans immigration and travel from seven countries (and limits it from an eighth) is based on authority in immigration law that other presidents have used. But all but one of these bans were quite different from President Trump ’s. They banned at most a few thousand—almost always specifically named—individuals based on their personal conduct, not their nationality. In the one exception, not all nationals were banned, and the requirements to end the ban were very clear. Neither of which can be said for the Trump ban.Different in ScaleNo president has attempted to ban as m...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 16, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
WTF Is Your Problem?
Do you ever feel like the different parts of yourself aren't lining up properly?In this case, I don't mean anatomically, I mean psychologically. As in: the "smart" part of you is going "I really need to do this Thing, I'll get right on that tomorrow! (ie., exercise/quit smoking/schedule a colonoscopy). And the other part of you, the part that is stupider but is actually in charge of what you end up doing is all "Ha! Like THAT's ever gonna happen!"Of course, there's always the helpful motivational slogan popularized by Nike, "Just Do It, Asshole." Hmm. I may be remembering that slightly wrong.But what if you'd really ...
Source: Cranky Fitness - October 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Wage Effects of Immigration Are Small
Immigration has small long-runrelativewage impacts on American workers by education (Figure 1). These estimates are the most popular and widely cited in the immigration debate. They were completed byGeorge Borjas andGianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri. Their findings are very close but diverge most appreciably for the wages of dropouts, even though the effect is small and positive for all native-born workers lumped together. According to the 2015 American Community Survey, 9.4 percent of native-born Americans over the age of 25 are dropouts. Thus, the wages for over 90 percent of Americans actually increased due to immig...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 10, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 3rd 2017
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - April 2, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Open Longevity Initiative Works Towards Organization of Trials
I noted the existence of the Open Longevity initiative earlier this month. This is an evolution of the core Russian-language longevity science community, involved in the Science for Life Extension Foundation and related advocacy initiatives. The members of that community have been building bridges to the European and US longevity science communities for a decade now, aided by progress in automated translation technologies and the growing prospects for therapies that can meaningful treat the causes of aging. Collectively, we've reached the point at which meaningful treatments are almost at the clinic; it is the time to move...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 31, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
NATO Expansion is Unwise. Saying So Isn't Treasonous.
Ad hominem has always been a feature of politics, but Senator John McCain (R-AZ) elevated it to a new level earlier this week. The incident occurred when McCain came to the Senate floor to ask for unanimous consent to move forward on a vote formally bringing Montenegro, a small country in the Balkans, into the NATO alliance. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) objected. McCain responded by suggesting Paul was a traitor to his country and accusing him of “working for Vladimir Putin.”McCain seemed particularly incensed that Paul objected without explaining his reasons. As reported at theDaily Beast:“I note the senator from Kentuc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
The European Commission ’s War against Pro-Growth Corporate Tax Policy
I have a love-hate relationship with corporations.On the plus side, I admire corporations that efficiently and effectively compete by producing valuable goods and services for consumers, and Iaggressively defend those firms from politicians who want to impose harmful and destructive forms of taxes, regulation, and intervention.On the minus side, I am disgusted by corporations thatget in bed with politicians to push policies that undermine competition and free markets, and I strongly oppose all forms of cronyism and coercion that give big firms unearned and undeserved wealth.With this in mind, let ’s look at two controver...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 26, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
Stop Treating NATO as a Social Club
Members of NATO are meeting in Warsaw. They are dragging the U.S. back into its traditional role of guaranteeing the security of Europe, even though the continent is well able to defend itself.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a necessary part of Containment, preventing the Soviet Union from dominating or conquering Western Europe. But after recovering from World War II the Europeans remained dependent on America.
NATO lost its raison d’etre once the Warsaw Pact disbanded and Soviet Union collapsed. Alliance officials eventually added “out of area” activities, that is, wars of choice irrelevant to Europe’...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 12, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Who Should Defend Europe? Why Not Europe?
NATO’s foreign ministers met recently to assess current security threats. Alas, the gathering illustrated how NATO has become an expensive burden for America.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was birthed during the Cold War. America’s defense shield allowed the war-ravaged states of Western Europe to recover.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact NATO’s raison d’etre disappeared. For a time alliance supporters worried about the organization’s future.
But the organization soon reinvented itself as a sort of Welcome Wagon for Moscow’s former republics and satellites. Hence the inclusion of t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
U.S. Should Leave NATO Instead of Expanding the Alliance
Is NATO a military alliance or social club? The “North Atlantic” Treaty Organization just invited Montenegro to join. With 2,080 men under arms, Podgorica is a military nullity.
As I point out on National Interest online: “Adding Montenegro to NATO is like accumulating Facebook Friends. They do little more than allow preening Washington officials to wander the globe gloating how popular the U.S. is.”
During the Cold War NATO was viewed as deadly serious. For years war seemed to be a real possibility.
Then the Soviet Union collapsed. The quintessential anti-Soviet alliance no longer had anything to defend or defend ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 8, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
