David Lee

David Lee


  • November 20, 2019

    Why Rich People Love Poor Immigrants

    Soon after the Immigration Act of 1965 was passed, real wages of low-skilled workers soon stopped growing and have gone nowhere ever since.  The incomes of the rich, however, accelerated upward.  Both events can be explained by the mass imm...

  • June 2, 2016

    Illegal Immigration and the Wage Gap

    There is a close long-term correlation between low-skill wages and illegal immigration. An influx of low-skilled labor drives down wages at the bottom of the income scale, aggravating the wage gap and social divisions, providing fodder for left wing ...

  • May 4, 2015

    Has Immigration Caused the Income Gaps Since 1774?

    Over the past 240 years, the gap between the incomes of the rich and working poor has risen and fallen in sync with a 40-year trailing average of immigration.  This, and the laws of economics, strongly indicate that immigration causes most of th...