What REALLY is causing the Gini coefficent increase in the United States.

[Kasz216]

mrstickball said:

Kasz216 said:

 

 

The Gini coefficent map made me remember the other big gini coefficent issue.  Illegal Immigration, hence why Texas' gini coefficent is so high despite marriage being at good levels.

Right. If your adding high amounts of unskilled labor, your going to create more inequality. Probably one of the secret reasons behind lower inequality among contries with a very homogenous populace.

Well skill level is actually irrelevent anyway.  One of the saddest things about illegal immigration is all the children of illegal immigrants who go to college (More soon thanks to some of the DREAM acts put in place.)

Ones that weren't born here that is.   They go to college expecting a better life like everyone else, but you can't get a real job without a social security number.  So they end up getting big expensive degrees... and working with their parents in whatever illegal alien under the table work they are doing.  Not many under the table proffessor jobs or nuclear engineers or anything involving a degree.

It's why basically anyone with any common sense should be against the Dream acts.  It's diverting money from degrees that actually could have uses, to degrees that are nothing but a waste of money... even from an employment point of view.

You'll see the college degree unemployment rates rise because of this eventually.