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Jared Polis: “This comprehensive immigration reform helps two ways. One, there's more people paying in, young people. The second way…”

On the recordMay 16, 2013
This comprehensive immigration reform helps two ways. One, there's more people paying in, young people. The second way is more economic growth, which means Social Security is funded through a payroll tax. So when you have more people working, lower unemployment, we talked about getting that rate in Riverside down from 11 percent to 9 percent to 8 percent to 6 percent. Everybody working is then paying in, and that also makes Social Security stronger. So this argument about the critical economic growth engine that we need not only creates jobs today but helps ensure that tomorrow's seniors are taken care of in their old age.
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Jared Polis
Democratic · Colorado
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May 16, 2013

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