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How to help tsunami victims
Will Wilkinson writes:
...there is something more we can do that will have long-term positive benefits for the citizens of tsunami-battered nations—something that will buy us goodwill but cost us almost nothing.
Let them work in the U.S. (emphasis added)
Here is the full argument. Not only are the migrants better off, but they can send remittances back home.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 16, 2005 at 08:10 AM in Economics | Permalink
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