There are publications that used economic models and simulations to theorize immigration could harm earnings in specific sectors or income brackets. However there's basically no empirical evidence the real world follows those models. At least not in the USA. But even they show net welfare gains.

all of Borjas colleagues think he is a crank. You can look it up on Google scholar, he's a punching bag for the whole field.

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Yes that was Austin. Thankfully those amendments appear to have been eliminated before it gets to the final vote. Knock on wood their single stair code gets through soon.

This is fucking hilarious…I posted a version of this tweet on Twitter and it wasn’t getting much engagement so I reposted it without the word “Bluesky” and it’s doing normally even though I didn’t even delete the original tweet.

Manipulation and lack of respect in action.

I feel like this isn't so much strategic moderation as it is a strategic appeal to fringe Green party weirdos who are extreme but not in a way that coherently maps to conventional political alignments

The current monorail serves 33,000 passengers daily. This is about the capacity of the LV convention center loop. With minibuses it could comfortably carry many more. It could do this for 1/10 the price. Instead Newark visitors will be waiting until 2030 for a monorail originally approved in 2019

how much throughput do you imagine an airport people mover needs? And how many billions of dollars are we going to have to spend for extra capacity?

If we cannot fix these exploded transit budgets we will not have transit where we need it.

The 0.7 mile long Las Vegas Convention Center people mover cost less than $60 million. It was in service only two years after the contract was signed too. Perhaps we should have more projects like this?

Why would they demand only four stories? It doesn't make any sense, it's consistent with international regulations

If we repealed the Jones Act and other legislation that bars the use of affordable maritime transport we could also shift more cargo traffic to coastwise ships.