More Refugees, More Welfare? Why
It's Inevitable
- Dec 9, 2015
- Source: AAN
- by: AAN Staff
Many have expressed a very reasonable concern
about the Syrian refugees: that among them, there
will be ISIS and Al Qaeda operatives The United States
already has a welfare state that is larger, per capita,
than that of most openly socialist countries. If reports
about Syrian refugees are true, it looks like we're about
to spend more:
Nearly two-thirds of Syrian refugees are illiterate, which leaves hundreds of
thousands of new arrivals without the ability to get a job.
Ludger Woessmann, a professor of economics at the University of Munich, tells
German magazine Zeit 65 percent of Syrian refugees fail to meet international
standards on basic reading and writing skills. Just 10 percent of the one million
arrivals in the country this year have a college degree, which may force
unemployment rates and demand for social welfare to rapidly go up.
“With two-thirds of young Syrians who must be regarded as functionally
illiterate in accordance with international educational standards, so the
necessary training to run local businesses is mostly missing,” Woessmann
says.
Half of the refugees are under the age of 25 and can still get an education,
but the ability to learn to read and write quickly fades during the late teenage
years. Refugees in recent years struggle to complete basic learning courses
to prepare for the job market.
It's true that many refugees fcrom Ireland and Italy came here without basic literacy and thrived,
but that was a very different America where there were plentiful low skilled jobs that required
little intellectual competence. Americans must ask whether or not a large, idle, unemployable
population of displaced Muslims is a recipe for disaster.
Source: AAN
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