On: Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastruct...

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But Western Europe (EU) has the benefit of temporarily importing cheap East European (Romania, Poland etc) under skilled workers to do the heavy lifting.

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Aren't there like 10 million illegal immigrants in the US who serve similar function?

[xyzzyz → burntoutfire]

In NYC, the labor law requires paying "prevailing wage", which NYC decided is $100k+/year. See https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/for-the-public/nyc-wage... No wonder that all public projects are so expensive.

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Presumably not for public contracts.

[Xylakant → bnt]

Western European Countries usually have a law in place that labor brought in for these contracts has to be paid the same wage as local labor.