Gang of Eight Bill Doubles the Number of Temporary Workers

While American workers struggle with record unemployment, the immigration reform bill under consideration in the Senate threatens a surge of new competitors in a stagnant job market.

A new study of the reform bill by the Center for Immigration Studies found that in the first year after enactment, the bill would admit nearly 1.6 million more temporary workers than currently allowed.

“After that initial spike,” the study said, “the b...

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On ABC’s Good Morning America, Speaker John Boehner told George Stephanopoulos that economic growth is Republicans’ “number one priority.” He also discussed the illegal leak of classified information on national security programs, the importance of addressing our national debt, his concerns with the Senate immigration bill, and more. The full transcript is here and several key excerpts are below:

Boehner: Economic Growth & Jobs Are “Our Number One Priority”:

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Here’s James Pethokoukis:

1. Annual US GDP growth, adjusted for inflation, has averaged an anemic 2.1% for the 15 full quarters of recovery, versus 5.1% during the same span after the severe 1981–82 recession.

2. As a result, the economy has yet to return to anywhere near its pre–Great Recession growth trend. If it had, the economy would be $1 trillion bigger today.

3. This recovery has seen the weakest increase in real disposable income of any of the seven most recent recoveries, acco...

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The President’s policies prevent economic growth

While Washington remained mired in scandal and controversy, Friday brought another dismal job report, showing that the Obama economy continues to leave millions of Americans without work.

The monthly release of unemployment statistics was a nonevent for the President and Congress. Obama was in California to meet with the president of China. A few Senators droned on about immigration reform in an empty chamber. The House was not in session.

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