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Former plant workers, as well as Americans entering the work force and those trying to retire, have been forced into low-skill, low-pay service jobs, if they can find work at all.

U.S. Manufacturing Is Certainly Not What It Once Was 2011

Those same low-skilled immigrant households paid only $10,573 in taxes that year, meaning the average low-skill household had a fiscal deficit of $19,588.

Wonk Room » The WonkLine: July 7, 2009 2009

If you let tons of low-skilled people who are willing to work for less, this will lead to lower pay for low-skill jobs.

Matthew Yglesias » The Wages of Immigration 2010

Though there is a labor shortage among low-skill workers in China today, there is a glut of the college educated.

Is China Next? Francis Fukuyama 2011

And given that those adversely impacted by high levels of immigration are a relatively small minority of Americans, and given that immigration vastly increases the volume of resources available to the country with which to help people in need, I think crackdowns on immigration are a very unappealing way of helping low-skill immigrants.

Matthew Yglesias » The Wages of Immigration 2010

A disproportionate number of early retirees are low-skill workers who tend to perform manual labor, and are disproportionately black or Hispanic.

Blacks, Hispanics hold few investments, poll shows 2011

At the same time, the nation has more than 100 million candidates for only 61 million low-skill, low-wage positions.

John Bridgeland: America's Job Surplus and the College Completion Crisis John Bridgeland 2011

At the same time, the nation has more than 100 million candidates for only 61 million low-skill, low-wage positions.

John Bridgeland: America's Job Surplus and the College Completion Crisis John Bridgeland 2011

A disproportionate number of early retirees are low-skill workers who tend to perform manual labor, and are disproportionately black or Hispanic.

Blacks, Hispanics hold few investments, poll shows 2011

This was, to my eye, the ultimate low-skill job because it required absolutely no mental effort and hardly any physical work.

John Merrow: My 'brilliant' idea John Merrow 2011