remaining discriminatory barriers. The economy will benefit as an increasing proportion of workers from

traditionally disadvantaged groups have a greater opportunity to fulfill their potential. Pessimists worry that

the social tensions between different genders and between ethnic groups will rise and that workers will be less

productive as a result. Anti-discrimination policy, at its best, seeks to help society move toward the more

optimistic outcome.

The FRED database includes data on foreign and native born civilian population (https://openstax.org/l/104)
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and labor force (https://openstax.org/l/32442).

14.6 Immigration

Most Americans would be outraged if a law prevented them from moving to another city or another state.

However, when the conversation turns to crossing national borders and is about other people arriving in the

United States, laws preventing such movement often seem more reasonable. Some of the tensions over
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