Real Unemployment Not Measuring Those Off of the Roles
The official unemployment roles are designed to make the administration look good and to suggest that most of those who want a job can have a job. That is patently false, and it also does not tell the huge disruption that immigration has caused in the labor market, with huge numbers of American born workers displaced by immigrants. The Center for Immigration Studies recently released an analysis of Labor Department data, and the results are shocking and infuriating.
It turns out that the number of U.S. born, working-age Americans who are out of work has risen by 14.3 million since the year 2000.
“The [official] unemployment rate gives a false picture of what’s going on in the labor market,” CIS director of research Steven Camarota, the author of the analysis, said Friday. “There has been enormous growth in the number of working-age (16-to-65) people, especially native-born Americans, not working,” and thus are not counted in the formal measure of unemployment.
“The key question for our political leaders and candidates is, does it make sense to admit a million new permanent immigrants each year, along with several hundred thousand guest workers, given the enormous pool of working-age Americans not holding jobs?” Camarota added.
Camarota’s study shows that 28.2 percent of working-age, age 16-to-65, native-born Americans were not working in the last quarter of 2014.
That percentage adds up to almost 50 million Americans, or 48.8 million.
He found “55.2 million working-age, native-born Americans without jobs in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared to 40.8 million in same quarter of 2000.” In other words, with rounding, 14.3 million fewer native-born, working-age Americans were working than in the year 2000.
When combined with the number of not-working immigrants, the total number of both natives and immigrants unemployed or not in the labor force reached 71.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2015.
In January, 25.3 million immigrants and 123.7 native-born Americans were employed in the U.S., creating a workforce where one-in-six workers were born overseas.
The huge number of foreign workers, both illegals and those working with H1N1 visas exerts tremendous upward pressure on the available jobs for American citizens. And the idea that 28.2 percent of working-age native-born Americans age 16-65 are not working means that the real unemployment rate must be somewhere in the 15% – 20% range when correcting for students and others who actually choose not to work or are unable to work.
Source: breitbart.com
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