Jobs Americans Won’t Do?

It’s bad news when a writer for the Nation understands market economics better than a lot of Republicans.

Other items on the supposed labor “shortage”:

• Borjas on tight labor markets.
• Merrill Lynch’s chief North American economist: “While it makes for nice cocktail conversation, the data aren’t saying there is an acute labor shortage in this country.”
• CNBC segment on mechanization of the harvest in California.