{"id":61,"date":"2005-05-14T11:58:28","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T15:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/05\/14\/social-anxiety\/"},"modified":"2005-05-14T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T15:58:28","slug":"social-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/05\/14\/social-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a80'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><b>IMMIGRATION CHALLENGE:<\/b> Some have argued<br \/>\nthat immigration could help solve fiscal problems related to an aging<br \/>\nwork force &#8212; notably shortfalls facing Medicare and Social Security.<br \/>\nBut Stephen Camarota, of the Center for Immigration Studies, has looked<br \/>\nat some census data and concluded that <a class=\"times\" href=\"http:\/\/search.csmonitor.com\/search_content\/0509\/p17s01-wmgn.html\"><b>immigration doesn&#8217;t make much of a difference<\/b><\/a><br \/>\non these issues, according to an article in the Christian Science<br \/>\nMonitor. Mr. Camarota found that, according to the census data, the<br \/>\naverage age of an immigrant in 2000 was 39, about four years older than<br \/>\nthe average age of a native-born American. In fact, Mr. Camarota found<br \/>\nthat without the 31 million post-1980 immigrants and their U.S.-born<br \/>\nchildren, the working-age population would be virtually unchanged at<br \/>\n66. He also concluded that immigrants aren&#8217;t the driving factor behind<br \/>\nthe U.S. fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman; without immigrants,<br \/>\nthe nation&#8217;s fertility rate would have dropped to only about two<br \/>\nchildren per woman. Mr. Camarota notes that immigrants also earn<br \/>\nsignificantly less than U.S.-born citizens, which means they pay less<br \/>\ninto payroll taxes to support Social Security.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMMIGRATION CHALLENGE: Some have argued that immigration could help solve fiscal problems related to an aging work force &#8212; notably shortfalls facing Medicare and Social Security. But Stephen Camarota, of the Center for Immigration Studies, has looked at some census data and concluded that immigration doesn&#8217;t make much of a difference on these issues, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}