You would think that with the national unemployment rate firmly stuck at 9% Americans would be scrambling to take any jobs they can get. Turns out that's not necessarily the case. In a BusinessWeek feature last week Elizabeth Dwoskin looked at Alabama's economy after the state passed a "papers please" immigration law that has led to “an exodus of thousands of immigrant field hands hotel housekeepers dishwashers chicken plant employees and construction workers.” One of the chief benefits of the law as Republican governor Robert Bentley had argued would be allowing Alabamans to pick up the jobs that ...
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