The $6800 amount is basically the amount that makes it to the classroom and does not include capital buildout, administrations etc. link

I’ll gladly agree, the typical people complaining about illegal immigration are also the first ones pulling up to the home depot day laborers when they need physical work done.

Overall, I recognize we’ll have wage and price inflation. However, I suspect once we have all of our necessary workers above the board, we’ll better be able to maintain our quality of life in a sustainable manner.

Essentially, we are merely repeating the middle ages. Instead of innovating like we did in the renaissance, we continue to exploit cheap plentiful labor has the Europe did before the black plague occured eliminating plentiful labor. The result, was innovation and the shift from the manually intensive processes.

I’m not a great fan of living wages, but I’m even less of a fan of artificially low wages for physically demanding or unpleasant work because the owners are exploiting non-Americans in our own country,