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Federal Reserve blames immigrant kids for robbing jobs from ‘native’ U.S. teens

Federal Reserve blames immigrant kids for robbing jobs from ‘native’ U.S. teens By Paul Bedard American teen employment has dropped 20 percent from the late 1980s, in part because more and more immigrants have flooded into the market to displace native-born kids from jobs in percentages far higher than on adults, according to the Federal Reserve. “The displacement effect of immigration on the employment of younger persons is much larger than on the employment of prime-age adults,” said the September 2014 report, “Labor Force Participation: Recent Developments and Future Prospects.” The Fed report is the second to blame immigrants for… View Article