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Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by 11_4_time on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:46AM (#16231034)
They haven't had decades of sustained mass immigration of low-skilled workers.
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by theonewhocanfly on Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:00AM (#16231150)
What a bogus , Switzerland has 40% foreigners which have immigrated , 30% of those have nowadays a citizenship and passport , read Swiss history before posting such crap!!!
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by 11_4_time on Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:08AM (#16231217)
The raw numbers aren't the issue. Switzerland hasn't had decades of sustained mass-immigration of low-skilled workers. The flow of immigrants to Switzerland is nothing like that into the United State.
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by xorfish on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:58AM (#16231136)
I know, not all immigrants are low skill. But nearly 25% of Swiss residents do not have a Swiss passport. (Even if you account for the difficulty of the naturalization process, that is a lot)
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by ska on Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:21AM (#16231333)
This is both factually inaccurate and tendentious in implication.
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by pmyteh on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:55AM (#16231109)
Germany, at least, has: several million people, just counting those of Turkish descent.
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by adamnemecek on Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:04AM (#16231176)
You don't know much about Germany eh?
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by 11_4_time on Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:11AM (#16231248)
Yes I do. Up until recently they had about 50,000 illegal year.