• 6:35 - 9:33
Donald Jeffries | Survival Of The Richest, Huey Long, & Solution Suppression
Media Elite Perspectives and the Impact of Immigration on Wages
The discussion shifts to how media personalities and politicians, who are often in the top 20% of earners, fail to understand the struggles of the bottom half of the country. Jeffries notes that 50% of American workers earn less than $27,000 annually, which is insufficient for independent living in most areas. He argues that continuous waves of immigration from poorer regions broaden the pool of desperately poor people, further driving down wages for the bottom 50%.