Immigration
topic on 5 shows · 10 statements across 9 episodes
American Optimist 
How I Built This 
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10 statements about Immigration, every show
Carlson: Mass immigration turned California into a slum
“But fundamentally the state is a slum. It's a Latin American country, and immigration did that.”
Rep. Ro Khanna: Immigrants boost economic demand alongside labor supply
“When you have a immigrant as a worker, yes, you're increasing the labor supply and the supply, if you increase supply that drives down price or wages, but you're also increasing demand because they're spending a lot of money on things.”
Rep. Ro Khanna: US job loss stems from offshoring, not immigration
“My view of why we have lost jobs and stagnation has been the offshoring of so much of our industry and the hollowing out of towns and communities”
Ackman: Expanding immigration is the best way to curb inflation
“The best way to solve that problem is to open up immigration, right? Why, why force people out of work to slow the economy to get rid of inflation? Why not increase the supply of workers so that you know, we temper the increases in wages? I just think it's a b…”
Gimenez: The US has first-round draft pick on global talent through immigration
“What America has that sometimes I think we forget is we have first round draft on the greatest talent in the world, right? If there is a smart person anywhere in the world, we could find a way to get them to America. So I think immigration is core to this, rig…”
Chamath: Immigration is the only short-term solution for U.S. labor shortages
“You're not going to get, you know, families to all of a sudden have kids, you know, that that's a 18 year problem. If you started that problem today to get them into the workforce or 25 year problem. So immigration is really the only solution.”
Nikhil Arora: Immigrating is the ultimate form of entrepreneurship
“Even think about entrepreneurship, like, to me, immigrating is the ultimate form of that, of taking risk and sacrifice in search of something better”
Chamath: Cultural elites support immigration merely as a synthetic signal of openness
“It tends to be sort of cultural elites are pro-immigration because it's a synthetic way of showing openness and open-mindedness.”
Ting Ni argues immigration strategy should be a key employee retention tool
“Immigration should really become a key aspect of your retention strategy for your employees.”
Clifford: Startups will radically innovate social policy and immigration within a decade
“We've not yet had an EF company work in that space, but I believe that over the next 10 years we will see startups becoming radically innovative in fields like social policy immigration, and that sort of thing, and I think that's going to be absolutely extraor…”