Apr 9, 2007

Most of those companies would probably go out of business or those jobs would be shifted offshore, because that’s their competitiveness factor. Those firms are competing in a global marketplace,” said Jim Johnson, a professor at the University of North Carolina who contributed to the study on Arkansas’ immigrant population. “You can raise chickens in any place in the world now. The variable cost is labor.

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