buffalo Loc: Texas

5.3% unemployment rate? I'll bet you also believe that the rate of inflation for 2014 was the official lie of 1.6%.
Guess what? The spot price (not futures speculation-driven) of US Foodstuffs in 2014 was up a staggering 19%...

The latest overall figures I could find...

The cost of bread, meat, milk, cheese, vegetables, sugar and cooking oil among others in January 2008 were compared with prices for the same products in April 2013. Prices were up 49%!

How much has your income gone up? Wages in red, unemployment in grey...

Mom8052 Loc: Lost in the mountains of New Mexico

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yea, you might have to pay a little more for produce, but don't expect prefect builds by the i*****l w****rs............5.3% unemployment is not correct if you take into account that a lot of those working are underemployed with 30 hr a week jobs, instead of 40 hrs a week. People doing jobs, once done by the 16 - 18 yr old crowd. I've worked in the fields picking produce in 100 degree weather, it's hard work.

Mom8052 Loc: Lost in the mountains of New Mexico

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RETW

Boehner is spineless, McConnell as well. It doesn't matter, as Obama is going to do what ever he wants. The leaders in Congress are YES MEN to the President, they have been told to leave his EO's & EM"s alone. WELL, nothing will change, as if it goes all the way to the Supreme Court, they will not uphold the LAWS OF THE LAND, because they are also in the Prez's pocket. Right now, that how I feel.

Workinman Loc: Bayou Pigeon

Oh so how was produce and other work handled before?? Oh thats right by a legal means called work permits!!

Workinman Loc: Bayou Pigeon

Ted Cruz speaks about the GOP sabotage:

http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/ted-cruz-spills-secret-of-gop-amnesty-sabotage/

Liberty Tree

I have said all along as long as Boehner and McConnell are the GOP leaders in Congress nothing will change and Obama will get his way until it all implodes on us.

Mom8052 Loc: Lost in the mountains of New Mexico

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Mom8052 Loc: Lost in the mountains of New Mexico

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So , inthe end, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE get screwed again.

Workinman Loc: Bayou Pigeon

It seems so Mom, I will not give up as a Conservative we must keep working to inform people and stay involved sending messages to those that we elect to do what we sent them to do. Back people that represent us and send the ones that don't back home.

Mom8052 Loc: Lost in the mountains of New Mexico

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Missouri Loc: Cherokee Reservation

Employment

Last updated: February 13, 2015

By David Payne
The labor market will continue to tighten. Expect monthly job gains in 2015 to average 250,000—about 3.0 million for the year, slightly above 2014’s addition of 2.95 million jobs. These gains will keep incomes and consumption fueling healthy economic growth.

In January, companies hired 257,000 more workers, with gains spread across nearly all industries. Hiring of health care, food service, retail and construction workers continued at a strong pace. Another sign of better times was that November and December job gains were each revised upward, to 423,000 in November and 329,000 in December. Job opening rates continue to climb, indicating likely strength in future hiring.

A tighter labor market foreshadows further strengthening of the economy. Gains in labor income create the consumer spending that economic growth depends on. GDP growth is likely to continue at a rate better than 3% through 2016.

Look for the unemployment rate to finish the year at 5.3%. It rose to 5.7% in January as the labor force swelled with those coming back to look for work. Declines in the rate are likely to slow this year as better job prospects bring more back to look.

A tighter labor market implies higher wage growth. For nonsupervisory workers, wage growth is likely to bump up a small amount in 2015 to 2.4%, after running at about 2% for most of the second half of 2014. However, any pickup in wages is not likely to lead to higher prices for a while.

Dept. of Labor: Employment Data

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U.S. Adds 257,000 Jobs In January; Unemployment Rate Rises To 5.7 Percent

Workinman Loc: Bayou Pigeon

Not to bright are you??...Go to DOL and look up the U-6 number.

Missouri Loc: Cherokee Reservation

“I remain comfortable with the assumption that circumstances will come together around midyear or a little later,” Dennis Lockhart, chief of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said in a speech Friday in Naples, Fla. “I won’t be more definitive than that. I think all possibilities from June on should remain open.”

Ms. Yellen may provide some additional insight when she makes a biannual appearance Feb. 24 before a Senate committee to testify about monetary policy. She will testify before a House committee the next day.

Along with the generally positive tenor of the headline numbers, economists were also heartened by job gains in a broad variety of industries, both white collar and blue collar.

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For example, the construction industry, which is still suffering from the effects of the housing bust seven years ago, gained 39,000 jobs. Manufacturers added 22,000 workers, and restaurant and food service employment rose nearly 35,000.

At the same time, higher-paid tiers of the economy also displayed strength. Financial companies and insurance providers hired more than 22,000 additional workers, and the booming health care field gained another 38,300.

One notable weak spot was oil and gas extraction, as plunging energy prices prompted companies to lay off 1,900 workers, bringing total employment in the sector to 199,500. The public sector eliminated 10,000 jobs, including a 6,000 cut in employment by the federal government.

“The good news is that there was hiring across a wide range,” said Tara M. Sinclair, a professor of economics at George Washington University and chief economist at Indeed.com, one of the nation’s largest job-posting sites .

“People worry about having too many low-end jobs being created,” she said. “But we need those jobs too.”

Missouri Loc: Cherokee Reservation

We( my people) do not support i*****l a***ns in any way.
Just being a realist! History is about to repeat itself.

There are few subjects that evoke as much emotion as immigration reform, especially since future laws could result in a path to citizenship for over 11 million i*****l i*******ts.

When analyzed from the vantage point of information derived from reputable, nonpartisan sources (the Pew Research Center, USDA, United States Department of Labor, and leading economists and researchers) then one can obtain a clearer view of this muddled discussion. The t***h of the matter is that i*****l i*******ts are important to the U.S. economy, as well as vital to certain industries like agriculture.

According to the Pew Research Hispanic Trends Project, there were 8.4 million unauthorized immigrants employed in the U.S.; representing 5.2 percent of the U.S. labor force (an increase from 3.8 percent in 2000). Their importance was highlighted in a report by Texas Comptroller Susan Combs that stated, “Without the undocumented population, Texas’ work force would decrease by 6.3 percent” and Texas’ gross state product would decrease by 2.1 percent. Furthermore, certain segments of the U.S. economy, like agriculture, are entirely dependent upon i*****l i*******ts.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture states that, “about half of the hired workers employed in U.S. crop agriculture were unauthorized, with the overwhelming majority of these workers coming from Mexico.” The USDA has also warned that, “any potential immigration reform could have significant impacts on the U.S. fruit and vegetable industry.” From the perspective of National Milk Producers Federation in 2009, retail milk prices would increase by 61 percent if its immigrant labor force were to be eliminated.

Echoing the Department of Labor, the USDA, and the National Milk Producers Federation, agricultural labor economist James S. Holt made the following statement to Congress in 2007: “The reality, however, is that if we deported a substantial number of undocumented farm workers, there would be a tremendous labor shortage.”

In terms of overall numbers, The Department of Labor reports that of the 2.5 million farm workers in the U.S., over half (53 percent) are i*****l i*******ts. Growers and labor unions put this figure at 70 percent.

But what about the immense strain on social services and money spent on welfare for these law breakers? The Congressional Budget Office in 2007 answered this question in the following manner: “Over the past two decades, most efforts to estimate the fiscal impact of immigration in the United States have concluded that, in aggregate and over the long term, tax revenues of all types generated by immigrants—both legal and unauthorized—exceed the cost of the services they use.” According to the New York Times, the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration claims that undocumented workers have contributed close to 10% ($300 billion) of the Social Security Trust Fund.

Finally, the aggregate economic impact of i*****l i*********n is debatable, but any claim that they’ve ruined the country doesn’t correlate to the views of any notable economist. An open letter to President George W. Bush in 2006, signed by around five hundred economists (including five Nobel laureates) stated the following: “While a small percentage of native-born Americans may be harmed by immigration, vastly more Americans benefit from the contributions that immigrants make to our economy, including lower consumer prices.”

Although Harvard economist Jorge Borjas has stated that i*****l i*******ts from 1980-2000 have reduced the wages of high school dropouts in the U.S, he also states that the average American’s wealth has increased by 1 percent because of i*****l i*********n. In an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, UC Davis economist Giovanni Peri stated that new laws are needed to meet demands within industries like construction, agriculture, and hospitality: “In recent decades, the high demand for these services and the pressure for keeping their cost low and prices competitive have generated incentives to hire undocumented workers.”

Some people claim that i*****l i*******ts represent an assault on our sovereignty. If this is true, then it might be the first time in world history that a country has employed its invaders. When i*****l i*******ts cross the border, there’s a citizen waiting to hire them and benefit in some manner from their labor. The sooner our country realizes that immigration reform should be based upon the views of economists and nonpartisan academic researchers, rather than think tanks and radio show hosts, then Congress will finally be able to help solve this national dilemma.