What Do Low Wages, Immigration And Self-Driving Cars Have In Common?

DC: Tucker Carlson tackled part two of his new weekly segment, “American Men Are In Crisis,” Wednesday with a lively interview with author David Paul Kuhn on immigration, technology and the effect they have on men’s wages in America.

Carlson, a founder of The Daily Caller, pointed to how, historically, low wages among men have resulted in the fracturing of the nuclear family before diving into how these problems have only been exacerbated as “unintended consequences” of immigration policy and technological advances.

“Washington isn’t worried at all about this,” he stated. “Lawmakers and business leaders assure us those truck drivers will be just fine. They’ll find something else to do, something better, with higher pay. Maybe they will. But keep in mind that they said the same thing about manufacturing jobs thirty years ago.”

They’re invisible in Washington, yet they’re everywhere: Americans who’ve dropped out of the workforce. About seven million American men between the ages 25 to 54 no longer have jobs. That’s more than 10 percent of the entire prime-age male labor force in the United States. It’s a huge number. Most of those men, studies predict, will never return to work.  MORE