I agree it's a glaring oversight, but I don't think it's a supply/demand effect so much as a demographic shift: I'd bet that the group of American working men a

I agree it's a glaring oversight, but I don't think it's a supply/demand effect so much as a demographic shift: I'd bet that the group of American working men ages 30-45 without a high school diploma now tilts much more heavily first-generation immigrant than it did in 1990. The percentage of native born Americans with high school diplomas has risen pretty consistently over that period, and immigrants as a % of the population has been spiking since 1970, rising from 8% to 13% from 1990-2013.[1] As the Census Bureau pointed out in 2003: The percentage of the foreign born with a high school diploma (67 percent) was dramatically lower than that of the native population (88 percent), but paradoxically, the percentage with a bachelor's degree was the same (27 percent).[2] I don't think it's outrageous to suggest that first generation immigrants may have less remunerative employment opportunities than native born citizens, regardless of their education level, but particularly without a high school diploma. [1] http://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time?width=1000&height=850&iframe=true http://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immi... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States#Foreign_born_.26_Immigrants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U...