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One key reason inflation is cooling: Immigrant workers

One key reason inflation is cooling: Immigrant workers

There’s one hot-button topic that could hold the key to where inflation goes: immigration. It’s already done a great deal in bringing down consumer price growth to where it is now, experts say, even though the most recent data showed that inflation increased more than expected in December. Investors would be wise to track the flow of immigrants as they assess the future direction of interest rates and the US economy. Not only did the foreign-born population in the US finally exceed its… Source link

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Illegal immigrant accused of abandoning baby in trash can says she was raped before coming to US: Police

An illegal immigrant accused of abandoning her baby in a bathroom trash can at a California park was arrested Thursday and told law enforcement that the baby was conceived after she was raped in Guatemala, police said. The 22-year-old woman, whose name has not been released for safety reasons, admitted to investigators that she gave birth to the child June 9, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. She abandoned the newborn two days later at a park in Lynwood, California,… Source link

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Google, 30 other cos file legal brief to support immigrant spouses

NEW DELHI: Search giant Google and 30 other companies are rallying to support a law that allows the spouses of H-1B visa holders in the US to work in the country. The company filed a legal brief in a lawsuit called Save Jobs USA vs US department of homeland security. The suit argues that H-4 visas, which covers spouses of H-1B visa holders, provide unfair competition to American jobs. The brief filed by Google was in support of H-4 visa holders being allowed to work in the… Source link

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