{"id":12368,"date":"2018-06-19T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2018-06-19T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T14:58:10","slug":"letter-that-did-not-see-publication-in-the-ajc-the-hardships-of-minimum-wage-workers-in-affordable-housing-and-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/19\/letter-that-did-not-see-publication-in-the-ajc-the-hardships-of-minimum-wage-workers-in-affordable-housing-and-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter that did not see publication in the AJC &#8211; the hardships of minimum wage workers in affordable housing and immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AJC Business section recently brought us a story (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/epaper.ajc.com\/popovers\/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?appid=2870&amp;artguid=403a2ba6-375b-48f8-9a82-851d07785940\">Minimum wage workers in crisis,<\/a><\/em> June 14) on t &#8211; . It seems that there is nowhere in the U.S. these low-wage workers can afford so much as a two-bedroom apartment. http:\/\/epaper.ajc.com\/popovers\/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?appid=2870&amp;artguid=403a2ba6-375b-48f8-9a82-851d07785940<\/p>\n<p>Voters who express knee-jerk support for increasing already too-high immigration levels and another amnesty for illegal aliens should understand that the natural laws of supply and demand also apply to immigration, the labor force and the housing market.<\/p>\n<p>The undeniable reality is that that more workers mean lower wages and more demand for housing. It is comical to watch clueless young hamburger-flippers march for a $15 an hour wage one day and for open borders the next &#8211; on orders from political organizers who claim to be advocates for America\u2019s downtrodden poor.<\/p>\n<p>We should return to the lower immigration levels of the 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Lanier King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AJC Business section recently brought us a story (Minimum wage workers in crisis, June 14) on t &#8211; . It seems that there is nowhere in the U.S. these low-wage workers can afford so much as a two-bedroom apartment. http:\/\/epaper.ajc.com\/popovers\/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?appid=2870&amp;artguid=403a2ba6-375b-48f8-9a82-851d07785940 Voters who express knee-jerk support for increasing already too-high immigration levels and another amnesty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12375,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions\/12375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}