Black people who were employed as maids, janitors, nannies, and gardeners seemed to be hit the hardest. Gordon Hanson, a professor of urban policy at Harvard Kennedy School, found that cities that had seen a 10 percent increase in the number of workers because of immigration had also seen a 4 percent decrease in black workers’ wages, a 3.5 percent decrease in their employment rate, and a .08 percent increase in their incarceration rate. But for well-off Americans who hire labor—the owners of restaurants, golf courses, nursing homes, chicken-processing plants—the arrival of hardworking
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