Washington Post Reports that Restricting Work Visas Has Raised Wages in the Maryland Crab Industry

This is one of the main items in a Washington Post article on the Maryland crab industry. While the gist of the piece is that many of the crab packagers on Maryland's eastern shore are struggling because they can't get enough workers as a result of a reduction in the number H2-B visas available, the piece says that the crabbers have increased wages in order to attract more workers.

If the point of the limiting immigration in this sector was to raise wages, then the limits seem to have been su...

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Published on August 20, 2018 01:15
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