1/ The real immigration crisis at our borders isn’t that we are letting in too many people. It’s that we haven’t realized the economic implications of letting in too few.
2/ Following mainstream media outlets provides only a surface level understanding of the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy. We need to dig deeper. budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/…
3/ As birth rates decline, making it easier to legally immigrate into the U.S. will be critical to our future prosperity. wsj.com/articles/immig…
5/ There are many bad arguments out there for why we should make it more difficult to immigrate into the U.S. These arguments often begin with bad info cato.org/blog/14-most-c…
6/ Many act as though the benefits of immigration end and the costs persist. But what we know about second generation immigrants tells a very different story. pewresearch.org/social-trends/…
7/ What we do today to encourage immigration will have a lasting impact in the late 2030’s and beyond.
9/ This need not be a partisan issue. The data is clear on how important immigration is to our future prosperity. oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/repo…
10/ The consequence of ignoring this data is a rapidly aging population that will put us at a significant economic disadvantage in the decades ahead. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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1/ This video has been used repeatedly to suggest Bill Gates wants to deal w/ overpopulation, in part, by vaccinating more people. That part is actually correct. What is not true is that he meant anything at all like what anti-vaccine folks think he meant. A short thread...
2/ Similarly, images such as the one below have been shared which again misconstrue what Gates meant by his statements about vaccination and population growth.
3/ What Gates meant was that vaccinations can reduce child mortality, which in turn leads to reduced birth rates and reduced population growth. The Ted Talk wasn’t the only time he made this point. He did so here in 2011: forbes.com/sites/matthewh…
2/ I believe schools in this region of Germany reopened at the beginning of May. If so, not much time went by before they tested for antibodies. Was this enough time to give a true reflection of the risk of an outbreak?
3/ The study itself was conducted in a region with low case counts.
Those wondering how #Kavanaugh got confirmed today will not be surprised to learn that, in many ways, our government fails to represent us. You may have seen this meme. But it is worse than you think. More data in the thread below. #Elections2018#Election2018
Today, women make up roughly 51% of the U.S. population but control just 23% of the Senate and 19% of the House.
“By 2040, it is predicted that 70% of the population will live in just 15 states and thus select only 30% of U.S. Senators.” Or worse. washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…