McKnight noted that while gross domestic product growth is moderate on a national level, Texas - and Austin in particular - continues to outpace the nation.
For those jobs and in those industries and sectors where there's a large component of an immigrant workforce that is undocumented and that could possibly be deported ... to compensate someone for starting to take those jobs, you're going to pay someone more, you're not going to pay the same amount or less, that I feel very strongly about.
Monica Medina mentioned the cost pressures of Austin's housing market have far outstripped local wage growth, with rental rates growing 180 percent over the past 15 years compared to income growth of 72 percent.
We need to think of the Austin that we want to see in 20 and 30 years, not just the Austin of today, says Medina.
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