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The Problems are the Path: 2025 Lower Mortgages and Higher Property Values

 Shortly after Trump's election the Census came out with one of their Employment Reports.  My wife, Cindy, once worked for the U.S. Census as a field worker for the reports on employment.  She thought it would be interesting to see how Silicon Valley worked.  The report I am referring to did not deal with the Silicon Valley employees. It dealt with labor force calculations in the best way to describe it, immigrant population employment.   Generally recognised out of the report were laborers in the service industry and agricultural industry.  It was a well known acknowledgement in the footnote, I recall, as that many were most likely non-citizens here on temporary status.  Back in time when I graduated from Wisconsin I did volunteer work for the TB Association searching for positive skin tests for TB on non-citizens who crossed at Brownsville Texas to work in the fields in the harvesting and canning industries.  The Census is stuck on the poli...