This week on The Weeds, special guest star Dara Lind joins Sarah Kliff and me to teach a clinic on immigration policy. Next we delve into the ongoing standoff in Oregon, where some historical information actually gets me to change my mind. Then we look at a new empirical paper on the minimum wage’s role during the Great Recession that offers a window into exactly how hard it is to change minds.
The Weeds: Immigration and the minimum wage — with an armed standoff in between
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Show notes:
- How politicians use the vagueness of “amnesty” to their advantage
- Recent demographic trends of the US’s unauthorized immigrant population
- What we know about visa overstays
- The problem of “skills mismatch”
- How licensing barriers affect immigrants
- Vox’s video on the Oregon takeover
- About the standoffs at Waco and Ruby Ridge
- White paper of the week: “The Minimum Wage and the Great Recession: Evidence from the Current Population Survey”
- Arin Dube’s minimum wage research
- David Neumark’s minimum wage research
