The White House launched a new campaign this week to build support for President Obama’s executive action on immigration. Although the campaign is to feature state-by-state advantages weekly over the new few months, one of the purported nationwide benefits of the president’s actions is what amounts to about a sixty-five cents a day wage increase for “U.S.-born workers.” This claim appears in an annualized form in the graphic for California, the first state featured in the White House’s promotional effort:
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