More on Growing Income Inequality (Series at Slate): The Effect of Immigration

Here is Part Three of Tim Noah's series on growing inequality, posted over at Slate. This piece addresses immigration, and examines whether large scale immigration since 1965 — and especially in the past thirty years — can explain, to any significant degree, that growing income disparity by way of lowering wages at the bottom of the scale. In all, I think Noah does a good job of debunking the idea that immigration has played a major role, even though he cites studies indicating a depressive e...