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The article investigates the perception of job threat posed by immigrants within the U.S. by using group threat theory, contact theory, and cultural theory. It addresses the increasing attention being paid to issues of immigration in the U.S. since 2000, as well as notes the impact of forces including economic competition, labor market deregulation, and globalization on perception of immigrant threat. It comments on the connection between immigrant threat and economic stagnation caused by outside forces.

This study compares economic justice, measured by income inequality and child poverty rates, across industrialized countries. Labor market training, social service expenditures, unions and taxes were significantly related to economic justice. The United States had the highest income inequality and the second-highest child poverty rate of the countries studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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