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applegrove

(130,334 posts)
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 07:49 PM Jul 2025

Loss of Foreign Workers Begins to Bite U.S. Economy

Loss of Foreign Workers Begins to Bite U.S. Economy

July 8, 2025 at 7:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/07/08/loss-of-foreign-workers-begins-to-bite-u-s-economy/


“President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration is starting to ripple across the U.S. economy,” Politico reports.

“From small farms in California, to meat packing facilities in Nebraska to corporate giants like Disney, businesses are scrambling to replace workers after recent administration actions have taken immigrants, both legal and illegal, out of the labor force, including several hundred thousand people who had been given temporary work permits under President Joe Biden.”
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Loss of Foreign Workers Begins to Bite U.S. Economy (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2025 OP
With labour in such high demand, surely we'll get a $15 minimum wage at last. bluedigger Jul 2025 #1
probably not for the work that these people are leaving do LymphocyteLover Jul 2025 #2
So there's a secret pool of unemployed people who do? bluedigger Jul 2025 #4
that's the MAGA delusion LymphocyteLover Jul 2025 #5
Republicans have pushed the lie that people on Medicaid do not work. Lonestarblue Jul 2025 #10
Ag Sec Rollins said the 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid Program can do these jobs. Gimpyknee Jul 2025 #12
I listened to Rollins' comments about 'able-bodied' Medicaid recipients and . . . peggysue2 Jul 2025 #16
Grrrr!!! LymphocyteLover Jul 2025 #17
I've no doubt prices will go up and we will have a recession in the near future LymphocyteLover Jul 2025 #3
Yep. Toss in the tariffs increasing prices and you have the makings of inflation. Wounded Bear Jul 2025 #11
Thats the ONLY thing that'll get peoples attention. Dont count on it tho Callie1979 Jul 2025 #18
I think prices didn't go up too much yet because retailers pre-ordered a lot before the tariffs went into effect LymphocyteLover Jul 2025 #19
Wait til the drop in tourism hits the books. live love laugh Jul 2025 #6
+1 I have some estimates at a 27 billion dollar loss bronxiteforever Jul 2025 #9
Trump will have those vacancies filled by Medicaid recipients dalton99a Jul 2025 #7
Or his Secret Service and Brown Shirt gang...on our dime of course. travelingthrulife Jul 2025 #8
And it is going to get a lot worst. republianmushroom Jul 2025 #13
When the only thing you see is your hate... ananda Jul 2025 #14
Unbelievable how WS and the major news media outlets are normalizing all of his insane imbecilic shit wolfie001 Jul 2025 #15

bluedigger

(17,401 posts)
1. With labour in such high demand, surely we'll get a $15 minimum wage at last.
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 08:05 PM
Jul 2025

Or so my economic studies led me to believe...

LymphocyteLover

(9,382 posts)
2. probably not for the work that these people are leaving do
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 08:07 PM
Jul 2025

at least most of them. Farmwork, landscaping, restaurant help, housekeeping doesn't pay that much

bluedigger

(17,401 posts)
4. So there's a secret pool of unemployed people who do?
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 08:13 PM
Jul 2025

I guess those jobs will just fill themselves then. Problem solved.

Lonestarblue

(13,233 posts)
10. Republicans have pushed the lie that people on Medicaid do not work.
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 08:34 AM
Jul 2025

Two-thirds of adults who use Medicaid are workers, with 64% of them working full time. Most of those remaining are caregivers, disabled or ill, or students, all of which are qualifying exemptions. The idea that millions of immigrants can be replaced by Medicaid recipients is just stupid beyond belief. Are poor women forced to have more babies now expected to strap a baby to their back while harvesting vegetables? Or maybe people in wheelchairs can just roll around and pick lettuce. This Republican hatred of migrants and our own poor has gotten out of bounds with common sense tossed in the trash.

 

Gimpyknee

(1,025 posts)
12. Ag Sec Rollins said the 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid Program can do these jobs.
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:24 PM
Jul 2025

And don’t forget those millions of fat and lazy 10, 11, and 12 year old kids.

peggysue2

(12,389 posts)
16. I listened to Rollins' comments about 'able-bodied' Medicaid recipients and . . .
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 02:49 PM
Jul 2025

Was positively stunned by the ignorance and lack of empathy.

The mindset is reminiscent of the English during the Great Hunger in Ireland. The English were convinced that all Irish were lazy liars living on the dole. While exporting most of the Ireland's agriculture products, the economic solution was to make everyone work for pitiful handouts. Subsequently, they had skeleton-like workforces building roads-to-nowhere. Thousands upon thousands died.

The English, too, thought of themselves as 'good' Christians.

LymphocyteLover

(9,382 posts)
3. I've no doubt prices will go up and we will have a recession in the near future
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 08:08 PM
Jul 2025

this administration is such a bunch of morons

Wounded Bear

(63,857 posts)
11. Yep. Toss in the tariffs increasing prices and you have the makings of inflation.
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 08:52 AM
Jul 2025

Add a Repub resistance to increasing wages at all and you get stagflation. Higher prices, stagnant wages.

Libertarian nirvana.

Callie1979

(1,153 posts)
18. Thats the ONLY thing that'll get peoples attention. Dont count on it tho
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 07:52 PM
Jul 2025

We should have already seen higher prices & slumping sales. We haven't. If we dont see it by fall, I'm not sure WHAT will happen

LymphocyteLover

(9,382 posts)
19. I think prices didn't go up too much yet because retailers pre-ordered a lot before the tariffs went into effect
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 01:41 PM
Jul 2025

But sooner or later they have to go up, if the tariffs continue.

There are a lot of ways the economy can go bad.. like the attack on farmworkers should impact the price of food. The cuts to govt services and jobs, federal debt is out of control, the dollar is weakening, etc

bronxiteforever

(11,106 posts)
9. +1 I have some estimates at a 27 billion dollar loss
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 08:33 AM
Jul 2025

for the industry and all of the tax revenue with that!

ananda

(34,453 posts)
14. When the only thing you see is your hate...
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 01:14 PM
Jul 2025

you can't see anything else... like consequences,
for example.



wolfie001

(7,101 posts)
15. Unbelievable how WS and the major news media outlets are normalizing all of his insane imbecilic shit
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 01:49 PM
Jul 2025

The WH press corpse is so embarrassing. Needs to be buried and forgotten. We are truly f6cked as a nation. Too many undereducated and stupid/racist voters. How can that be fixed?

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