New jobs report spells more bad news for American workers 260k Americans exit the labor force..
Sep 6, 2015 17:21:35 #
New jobs report spells more bad news for American workers; 260k Americans exit the labor force
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report this morning in advance of Labor Day weekend, and BLS reports that nonfarm employment increased modestly by 173,000 in the month of August. The number looks good, but it represents a 30% decrease in new jobs from the previous two months.
While the overall narrow (U-3) unemployment rate decreased from 5.2% to 5.1%, the number of Americans who left the labor force increased by 261,000, helping to account for the drop in the overall rate.
These numbers are consistent with recent analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies that looked at employment for the second quarter of 2015. CIS found that 17 million Americans want a full-time job, but can't find one. The report also found that Black and Hispanic native-born workers have broad (U-6) unemployment rates 75% and 50% worse, respectively, than native-born workers as a whole. The U-6 rate not only counts individuals who are unemployed and looking for work, but also counts those who have recently given up their job search or have settled for part-time work for economic reasons.
The CIS report also found that foreign-born workers with a high school degree or less are more likely to have a job than their native-born counterparts. Nearly 1 in 4 native-born workers between the ages of 18-29 can't find a full-time job, where the rate for foreign-b orn workers of the same age is 20% less. For all native-born workers over the age of 18 with less than a high school degree, they face a U-6 unemployment rate almost 60% higher than that of their foreign-born counterparts!
This Labor Day weekend, the nation will celebrate the contributions that workers have made for our country. But, at the same time, we should also examine how immigration policies set by Congress -- and in some cases, set unilaterally and against the will of Congress by the Obama Administration -- affect American workers.
Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, touched on that in a recent op-ed for the http://hub.numbersusa.com/route/8/55ea00f974e18a01f257a9a5/867896/9
The data are clear. Employment prospects for young people, low-sk**led workers, and African-Americans continue to be dismal. When the unemployment rate in a population is over 8 percent, as it is for all three groups, you don't have a shortage of labor -- you have a surplus. It is clear that i*****l i*********n, and low-sk**led immigration generally, has a devastating effect on the jobs and wage s of low-sk**led Americans, particularly low-sk**led African-Americans and young Americans.
--- U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow
We've posted new faxes to your Action Board so you can send these numbers to your three Members of Congress and urge them to reduce the impact that high levels of both legal and i*****l i*********n have on American workers. We hope you'll take some time over the next few days to stand on the side of America's unemployed by sending these faxes.
IMMIGRANT HOUSEHOLDS USE MORE WELFARE
While high levels of low-sk**led immigration takes its toll on American workers, a new study from the Center for Immigration Studies has found that it also impacts the number of immigrant households that utilize welfare. The report found that 51% of immigrant-headed households use at least one welfare program compared to only 30% for native-born households. You can read more about the report here.
The study has come under some fire from open-borders groups (which could indicate their concern for its impact on public opinion) for its methodology. They claim that the study compares households instead of individuals and that it fails to compare welfare usage across sk**l levels. But the report's author, Dr. Steve Camarota, noted in a separate blog that the purpose of the study is to highlight the fact that current immigration policy results in more low-sk**led immigrants who are more likely to use welfare.
"As we make clear in our report, the main reason that immigrants use more welfare than natives is simply that immigrants tend to be less educated and subsequently poorer than natives," Camarota wrote. "Welfare use is not a moral failing on the part of low-ski lled immigrants any more than it is for low-sk**led natives. Our point is that as long as we continue to take in so many low-sk**led immigrants (legal or illegal), immigrant welfare use will remain high."
Chris Chmielenski
http://www.numbersusa.com
We need to step up to the plate and make these cheap skate employers, pay more so we Americans can take over and give American workers a better chance to survive. These Illegal's need to go home and stop robbing us of our Jobs. Let that be known!!!!!
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report this morning in advance of Labor Day weekend, and BLS reports that nonfarm employment increased modestly by 173,000 in the month of August. The number looks good, but it represents a 30% decrease in new jobs from the previous two months.
While the overall narrow (U-3) unemployment rate decreased from 5.2% to 5.1%, the number of Americans who left the labor force increased by 261,000, helping to account for the drop in the overall rate.
These numbers are consistent with recent analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies that looked at employment for the second quarter of 2015. CIS found that 17 million Americans want a full-time job, but can't find one. The report also found that Black and Hispanic native-born workers have broad (U-6) unemployment rates 75% and 50% worse, respectively, than native-born workers as a whole. The U-6 rate not only counts individuals who are unemployed and looking for work, but also counts those who have recently given up their job search or have settled for part-time work for economic reasons.
The CIS report also found that foreign-born workers with a high school degree or less are more likely to have a job than their native-born counterparts. Nearly 1 in 4 native-born workers between the ages of 18-29 can't find a full-time job, where the rate for foreign-b orn workers of the same age is 20% less. For all native-born workers over the age of 18 with less than a high school degree, they face a U-6 unemployment rate almost 60% higher than that of their foreign-born counterparts!
This Labor Day weekend, the nation will celebrate the contributions that workers have made for our country. But, at the same time, we should also examine how immigration policies set by Congress -- and in some cases, set unilaterally and against the will of Congress by the Obama Administration -- affect American workers.
Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, touched on that in a recent op-ed for the http://hub.numbersusa.com/route/8/55ea00f974e18a01f257a9a5/867896/9
The data are clear. Employment prospects for young people, low-sk**led workers, and African-Americans continue to be dismal. When the unemployment rate in a population is over 8 percent, as it is for all three groups, you don't have a shortage of labor -- you have a surplus. It is clear that i*****l i*********n, and low-sk**led immigration generally, has a devastating effect on the jobs and wage s of low-sk**led Americans, particularly low-sk**led African-Americans and young Americans.
--- U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow
We've posted new faxes to your Action Board so you can send these numbers to your three Members of Congress and urge them to reduce the impact that high levels of both legal and i*****l i*********n have on American workers. We hope you'll take some time over the next few days to stand on the side of America's unemployed by sending these faxes.
IMMIGRANT HOUSEHOLDS USE MORE WELFARE
While high levels of low-sk**led immigration takes its toll on American workers, a new study from the Center for Immigration Studies has found that it also impacts the number of immigrant households that utilize welfare. The report found that 51% of immigrant-headed households use at least one welfare program compared to only 30% for native-born households. You can read more about the report here.
The study has come under some fire from open-borders groups (which could indicate their concern for its impact on public opinion) for its methodology. They claim that the study compares households instead of individuals and that it fails to compare welfare usage across sk**l levels. But the report's author, Dr. Steve Camarota, noted in a separate blog that the purpose of the study is to highlight the fact that current immigration policy results in more low-sk**led immigrants who are more likely to use welfare.
"As we make clear in our report, the main reason that immigrants use more welfare than natives is simply that immigrants tend to be less educated and subsequently poorer than natives," Camarota wrote. "Welfare use is not a moral failing on the part of low-ski lled immigrants any more than it is for low-sk**led natives. Our point is that as long as we continue to take in so many low-sk**led immigrants (legal or illegal), immigrant welfare use will remain high."
Chris Chmielenski
http://www.numbersusa.com
We need to step up to the plate and make these cheap skate employers, pay more so we Americans can take over and give American workers a better chance to survive. These Illegal's need to go home and stop robbing us of our Jobs. Let that be known!!!!!
:thumbup:
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