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Zero Impact [from immigration boycott day]
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| Last Edited | PragCon 3.0 May 03, 2006 10:38am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, May 3, 2006 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | They marched in big cities and small towns. They boycotted work and businesses, and withdrew their children from school. Some walked out of their jobs. And as hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants took to the streets yesterday, they hoped for a dramatic impact: to prove to America that their work was significant to the successful function of the U.S. economy.
"At most, part of workers lost part of a day, [but] there’s no real effect on consumption. Whether it had a political effect or not—that’s a different question. But the economic impact was zero," said economnist James P. Smith. |
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