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Stuart Anderson

Stuart Anderson is executive director of the National Foundation for American Policy and a Forbes contributor covering immigration, business and globalization. He previously worked on immigration policy at the Immigration and Naturalization Service and in the U.S. Senate.

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Statements by Stuart Anderson

Stuart Anderson

Role at the time: Stuart Anderson, NFAP executive director and Forbes contributor, in an October 9 column

Challenged the characterization

Statement summary

Anderson argues that treating immigrant employment as displacement assumes a fixed number of jobs. He cites Microsoft's response and broader research on skilled immigration.

“promoted what economists call the lump of labor fallacy”
Open source (opens in a new tab)JD Vance Attacks Companies And ImmigrationOpening analysis and discussion of Microsoft's filings
Why we used this label

The reference point is Microsoft's alleged replacement of American workers through visa programs. Anderson disputes the economic inference Vance uses to characterize that hiring.

Read statementDid Microsoft replace laid-off American workers with H-1B workers, as JD Vance claims?

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