Study: State immigration law could cut economic production by $1.8 billion
Study: State immigration law could cut economic production by $1.8 billion
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By Don Mecoy
Published: March 25, 2008
Oklahoma's tough new immigration reform law could cut the state's economic production by $1.8 billion in the measure's first year, according to a study released today.
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What's worse, if you read the tenor of the opposition letters, you'll realize that trying to to change that spewing of hate and bigotry is wasted time. They don't want to hear you, so they won't.
Now all the hand wringing begins.
Too bad they didn't have the courage to speak up sooner.
Then we have their counterparts right here on newsok.com writing in the same crap about "us" and "them".
Scary.
If you consider $144 billion and divide it by the state's present population you get $40,200 per capita.
If you then consider $1.3 billion and divide it by the 50,000 estimate you get only $26,000 per foreign-born worker.
Next if you take 50,000/3,579,212 (The state's est. pop.) and multiply by $144 billion you get $2 billion in projected gross state product declines, however the article cited that it would be $1.3 billion, longer term. In short the state's gross state product would decline, however the gross state product per person would increase by about (144 billion-1.3 billion)/(3,579,212 - 50,000)
or about $200 per person
In short, these aren't the jobs we should care much for.