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Jobless rate for young workers in US highest since 1948
By James Brewer
22 April 2011
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THE REASON OUR BORDERS ARE HELD WIDE OPEN IS TO PERMIT HORDES MORE ILLEGALS OVER OUR BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
THE INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EVER EXPANDING MEXICAN WELFARE STATE PARTICULARLY DEPRESSES WAGES FOR BLACK AMERICA AND YOUNG WORKERS.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN MEXICO IS UNDER 6%...... IN PARTS OF CALIFORNIA, WHICH PAYS OUT $2O BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS, IT IS AS HIGH AS 29% IN SOME AREAS.
IN ALL OF MEXIFORNIA, “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGALS GET JOBS FIRST!
JOBS FOR MEXICANS, ALONG WITH “FREE” BIRTHING, “FREE” MEDICAL AT EMERGENCY ROOMS, OUR JOBS, AND FREE EDUCATION IS SO GOOD FOR MEXICANS HERE THAT MEXICO HAS EXPORTED 40 MILLION OF THEIR POOR, ILLITERATE, CRIMINAL AND PREGNANT OVER OUR BORDERS. …. ILLEGALS FROM CENTRAL AMERICAN THAT CROSS OVER INTO MEXICO, ON THEIR WAY TO AN AMERICAN JOBS, IS BEATEN UP AND PUT IN JAIL BY MEXICO! THERE IS !NO! WELFARE FOR MEXICO’S ILLEGALS, NOR WELFARE, NOR “FREE” MEDICAL, NOR JOBS! HIRE AN ILLEGAL IN MEXICO AND THE EMPLOYER REALLY DOES GO TO PRISON!
Not only has the Obama administration rejected out of hand a second stimulus package, let alone any government-funded jobs program, it is now embarking on a brutal austerity campaign that will slash whatever meager benefits young workers retain.
Mass unemployment is not an accident but a deliberate policy. The government and corporations are deliberately creating a “new normal” of mass unemployment in order to force young workers to accept poverty-level wages. These are the conditions that are driving the young generation into social struggle.
Jobless rate for young workers in US highest since 1948
By James Brewer
22 April 2011
This year’s graduates, from both high school and college, face a “dire labor market” with no safety net, a briefing paper released Wednesday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) warned. The report by the think tank notes that the unemployment rate in 2010 for young workers age 16-24 is the worst since this data has been tracked in 1948.
The report is a devastating refutation of the Obama administration’s talk of an “economic recovery.” Since 2007, unemployment rates for young people ages 16-24 not attending school roughly doubled. Compared to the official overall unemployment rate of 9.6 percent in 2010, the rate for that age group is roughly double, at 18.4 percent.
While high school graduates have been hardest hit, the unemployment rate for young college graduates is more than double the rate of college graduates 25 and older.
The paper, entitled “The class of 2011: Young workers face a dire labor market without a safety net”, presents a bleak picture for young jobseekers. Not only is unemployment highest among youth, there are no social programs to address their needs.
Additionally, over half of all college graduates from both public and private schools are burdened with at least $20,000 of debt. These are from 2009 figures. In the summer of 2010 the total debt from student loans overtook that of credit card debt for the first time in the US. Tuition has been rising drastically over the last two years, so the average student debt today is significantly higher.
The report details the lack of any social safety net for youth:
“Unemployment insurance (UI), the traditional assistance program that offers cash benefits to partially replace lost wages when a worker is laid off through no fault of their own, has strict eligibility requirements. A new entrant to the labor market is simply not eligible, no matter how scarce jobs are. Even those who have been laid off from a job must meet state requirements for wages earned and/or time worked during an established reference period. Young workers often fail these eligibility requirements due to their more intermittent attachment to the labor market.
“Furthermore, programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), also known as welfare, have work requirements and are only applicable to parents with children. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, does allow for able-bodied adults without dependents to collect benefits, but only for three months in a 36-month time period. Also, programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) are one of the many ‘work support’ systems in which eligibility requires employment.”
The rate that unemployment has risen among high school graduates is record-setting. The increase since 2007 “dwarfs the two prior recessions. In neither the 1990 nor 2001 recession did the 12-month moving-average unemployment rate for this group ever exceed 14.0%.”
The paper says that indicators show that youth are not “sheltering” in school to weather out the economic crisis. “While it is appealing to think that school can provide safe haven from a desperate labor market,” it is not evidenced by enrollment statistics.
The rate of “disconnected youth,” that is youth who are neither employed nor enrolled in school, increased to 17.6 percent in 2010. These conditions, where young people are both unable to find work or afford to attend school “or worse saddled with student loan debt,” have forced them to find support from parents and other family. The percentage of young people living at home has been spiking since 2007 and in 2010 is as high as it was in the late 1990s. “Needing family support makes young workers a burden” on the economy, the study says, requiring resources that would otherwise be spent elsewhere.
As bad as the unemployment rates for the 16-24 age group are, those for minority young workers are worse. While the overall jobless rate for high school graduates in that age group is 22.5 percent, it is 20.3 percent for white, 22.8 percent for Hispanic and 31.8 percent for black youth. The report notes that in times of economic downturn, the disparity of unemployment rates for minorities increases.
These figures understate the reality of the situation facing young people. Official unemployment rates are based on the number of workers actively seeking work through the channels that the states provide. Since social programs are virtually non-existent for young people, the figures are necessarily conservative.
The report correctly points out the lack of opportunities for young workers is not a matter of a lack of education or skills, a theme that is repeatedly peddled by the Obama administration and the news media. High unemployment among youth, it says, “did not arise because workers don’t have the right skills,” but “the class of 2011 is one of the many casualties of a lack of demand for workers in the overall economy.... The fact that the unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds has been well over 16% for two years straight underscores how premature is a deficit debate that fixates on deep cuts in federal spending.”
EPI is a liberal think tank, associated with the AFL-CIO. On this basis its report concludes, “to give a fighting chance” to young people, “we should focus the discussion on substantial additional stimulus spending to create jobs.”
Not only has the Obama administration rejected out of hand a second stimulus package, let alone any government-funded jobs program, it is now embarking on a brutal austerity campaign that will slash whatever meager benefits young workers retain.
Mass unemployment is not an accident but a deliberate policy. The government and corporations are deliberately creating a “new normal” of mass unemployment in order to force young workers to accept poverty-level wages. These are the conditions that are driving the young generation into social struggle.
The author also recommends:
The American student loan racket
[5 November 2010]
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“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
WHY THE NEW JOBS GO TO IMMIGRANTS
By David R. Francis
Wall Street cheered and stock prices rose when the US Labor Department announced last Friday that employers had expanded their payrolls by 262,000 positions in February.
But it wasn't entirely good news. The statisticians also indicated that the share of the adult population holding jobs had slipped slightly from January to 62.3 percent. That's now two full percentage points below the level in the brief recession that began in March 2001.
Why the apparent contradiction? Reasons abound: population growth, rising retirements. But one factor that gets little attention is immigration. In the past four years, the number of immigrants into the US, legal and illegal, has closely matched the number of new jobs. That suggests newcomers have, in effect, snapped up all of the new jobs. "There has been no net job gain for natives," says
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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EVER WONDER WHY NOTHING EVER COMES OUT OF THE BIG MOUTHS OF FEINSTEIN AND BOXER ON CA’S STAGGERING UNEMPLOYMENT? IT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE WORKING HARD FOR OBAMA’S AMNESTY, AND TO PUT ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS!
FEINSTEIN HIRES ILLEGALS AT HER S.F. HOTEL. OF COURSE, THEY’RE NOT REALLY ILLEGALS AS THEY HAVE POCKETFULS OF STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS!
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Feinstein and Boxer for Chain Migration! (Millions of Americans are out of work!)
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Urge your Rep. to Support H.R. 878 to Restrict Chain Migration!
This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey.
You can find this fax by proceeding to
http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=11563
Rep. Phil Gingrey has introduced the Nuclear Family Priority Act (H.R. 878), a bill that would would eliminate the extended family visa categories (e.g., married sons and daughters of citizens, etc.), thus ending “chain migration” as recommended by the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission in 1997. (Chain migration is the process where seemingly endless “chains” of foreign nationals are allowed to immigrate to the United States, since our laws allow citizens and lawful permanent residents to bring in their non-nuclear, adult family members. It is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple since the 1960s.) This bill would reduce overall immigration to the United States by over 111,000 per year.
Unfortunately, your Representative has not yet cosponsored H.R. 878. Please send your Representative a fax and urge him/her to support this great bill.
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Support American Workers - Enforce Immigration Laws
It is all about jobs…or at least that is what President Obama and leadership in Congress is telling us. So, why with unemployment hovering around 10 percent, are they reducing worksite enforcement of immigration laws?
Even though worksite enforcement opens jobs for Americans, when illegal workers are caught, they're released, so they can take another job. If that's not bad enough, the Obama Administration thinks it's OK to continue admitting more than a million foreign workers a year to take American jobs – all while American citizens and legal workers struggle to find decent wages to pay their mortgages and put food on the table.
FAIR, as part of The Coalition for the American Worker, has just launched two new TV ads that are running in markets around the country asking the President why he and leaders in Congress refuse to enforce our immigration laws, especially when Americans need jobs! Check out the ads below and make sure to forward them to your friends, family members, and colleagues.
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MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, AND HAS THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF HIGHLY VIOLENT MEXICAN GANGS IN THE NATION. THE MEXICAN TAX-FREE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IS CALCULATED TO BE OVER $2 BILLION PER YEAR. Really want Obama’s amnesty?
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http://www.wehirealiens.com/browse/index.asp
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“At the hearing, Dr. Rakesh Kochar, Associate Director for Research at the Pew Hispanic Center, testified that in the year following the official end of the recession (June 2009), foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while native-born workers lost an additional 1.2 million jobs.”
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POSTED! NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!
Dependence on illegal labor is the elephant in the room for the U.S. restaurant business. And experts say the Chipotle ICE investigations are a wake-up call for an industry that is one of America's biggest employers and generates over $300 billion in annual sales, according to research firm IBISWorld Inc.
In its annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission dated February 17, 2011, Chipotle Mexican Grill revealed that it fired approximately 450 workers at 50 of its restaurants in Minnesota last year as the result of an audit by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”
Eight Out of Ten Illegal Aliens Apprehended in 2010 Never Prosecuted, Says Border Congressman
Thursday, March 17, 2011
By Edwin Mora
Washington (CNSNews.com) – An illegal alien apprehended by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency during the last fiscal year had an estimated 84 percent chance of never being prosecuted, according to figures compiled by the office of Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas).
Culberson submitted the figures for the record during a hearing Wednesday of the House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security.
Of 447,731 illegal aliens apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol during fiscal year 2010 (which ended last September), only 73,263 (16.4 percent) were prosecuted, according to the submitted data. That means that 374,468 illegal aliens that were taken into custody (83.6 percent) were never prosecuted
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Support American Workers - Enforce Immigration Laws
It is all about jobs…or at least that is what President Obama and leadership in Congress is telling us. So, why with unemployment hovering around 10 percent, are they reducing worksite enforcement of immigration laws?
Even though worksite enforcement opens jobs for Americans, when illegal workers are caught, they're released, so they can take another job. If that's not bad enough, the Obama Administration thinks it's OK to continue admitting more than a million foreign workers a year to take American jobs – all while American citizens and legal workers struggle to find decent wages to pay their mortgages and put food on the table.
FAIR, as part of The Coalition for the American Worker, has just launched two new TV ads that are running in markets around the country asking the President why he and leaders in Congress refuse to enforce our immigration laws, especially when Americans need jobs! Check out the ads below and make sure to forward them to your friends, family members, and colleagues.
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WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD ENGLISH SPOKEN IN THE WORKFORCE?
The Emerging Third World U.S.
Francis Ferguson
OpEd News………February 26, 2008
I have an expression I present to my economics classes. It has a certain impact: the US is a third world nation, we just haven’t realized it yet. Our emerging status isn’t obvious. Products remain relatively cheap (energy excluded) despite the falling value of the dollar against most foreign currencies. But there are real signs.
Most Americans who are paying attention have noticed a long term decline in manufacturing jobs in the US. Quarter after quarter, year after year, the government reports job gains, but those gains are primarily in service industries: health care (we’re not talking doctors, here), restaurants and bars, retail trade and, until recently, construction. A close examination of the figures will usually reveal a decline in manufacturing jobs. This is not an accident.
The loss of American manufacturing jobs is largely the result of American firms moving their manufacturing off shore, to labor markets in which workers earn a tiny fraction of US wages. Once the globalization process began in earnest, it became impossible for many American firms to maintain US production even if the wished to. Keeping jobs here would render these firm uncompetitive as the rivals moved to take advantage of peasant wages in places like China , India and other developing nations.
Over the past 30 years, American manufacturing has moved offshore at an accelerating rate. Walk through any big box store (or any other for that matter) and look where things are made. Overwhelmingly, it’s China or other developing nations. The process is inexorable. With “Globalization” we have opened the world’s borders to free trade in goods and services. On the one hand, this has presented opportunities for US manufacturers to expand profits by shifting production to countries where wages are a tiny fraction of those in the United States. Goods made abroad can be sold at an attractive price in the US while still allowing producers to increase the difference between price and total cost, otherwise known a profit. Those companies with a sense of national pride and identity are, finally, forced to move some or all of their production offshore in order to survive.
Aside from the short term charm of finding bargains on the shopping rack, there are serious consequences here. Let’s look them. The first problem is the disappearance of the American “living wage”. The only reason Americans have managed to avoid confronting their declining real income per capita it by increasing the number of family members working. There was a time, in American mythology at least, when people accepted that one working family member could support 4 people at a reasonable standard of living. This was the vision of America Nixon and Krushchev debated, famously, at an exhibit of the postulated US living standards presented in the Soviet Union. This was the Ozzie and Harriet version of American life which was broadcast to the world and to the home audience as standard: the norm. It wasn’t, of course, but it was close enough to what middle America saw around them to be at least plausible. The incomes implicit in that early 1960’s view of American life may have improved until the early 1970’s (there was a war going on and war is always good for employment and incomes), but since that time statistics indicate that the real (inflation adjusted) incomes of American working people have actually declined.
Already, young people are finding no jobs, or a universe of job opportunities which pay poverty wages This is a problem that is not going away. It’s going to get worse.
A revealing example of this is the February 12th 2008 decision by General Motors to offer buyouts to all 74,000 union hourly workers. This followed closely a similar action by Ford. This would include severance packages for all employees, varying in terms depending on years of service. Relatively new employee’s would get a lump sum payment for leaving and forfeiting all health and post retirement benefits. The new workers, waiting in the wings, will earn on average $16 and hour as opposed to the current average $28 an hour. That rounds to a 43% reduction in income, and little is revealed about what benefits these new workers will receive, or whether or not the will have union representation—though I expect they will. Here is an example of a central, traditional area of American employment were workers are moving from an average of $58,240 pre tax per year to $33,280 pre tax. Obviously, these people have a surprising readjustment to make. They’re just the prominent tip of the iceberg. Already, young people are finding no jobs, or a universe of job opportunities which pay poverty wages. It’s why so many young workers (and unemployed youngsters) live at home
ASK HILLARY ABOUT NAFTA! What would Hillary’s CHAIN MIGRATION do? Except quadruple the number of illiterate Mexican gang!
This is a problem that is not going away. It’s going to get worse. Several convergent forces are leading to US economic destabilization. One force driving this tragedy is free trade, also called globalization. One of the more profound spokesmen on this subject is Paul Craig Roberts an economist in the Reagan Administration who has written extensively on the topic and lends support to the argument that globalization is on the verge of ruining the US economy.
The loss of American manufacturing jobs is largely the result of American firms moving their manufacturing off shore, to labor markets in which workers earn a tiny fraction of US wages. Once the globalization process began in earnest, it became impossible for many American firms to maintain US production even if the wished to. Keeping jobs here would render these firm uncompetitive as the rivals moved to take advantage of peasant wages in places like China , India and other developing nations. Even signature American enterprises such as Boing are moving larger segments of their airliner manufacturing to other countries. The finished sub assemblies for the 777 Dreamliner, for example, are flown to Seattle for final assembly. Highly skilled professionals, such as radiologists (medical doctors specializing in interpreting X rays) are finding their work sent via high speed communications to much lower paid radiologists in places like India. The effect of allowing the unimpeded flow of capital and goods and services between nations is precisely the same as allowing the free movement of people across borders. In the end, we will experience a relative equalization of wages, world wide. Obviously, those in the current Third World will find wages improving. With billions of impoverished workers waiting in the “wings”, US workers will find their wage declines much more starting and profound than the increases granted to the struggling poor of the developing world.
have financed the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The ultimate point, here, is the absolute unsustainability of the US’s position. We cannot expect our trading partners to hold dollars in unlimited quantities, and as we’ve no hope of being able to achieve a positive balance of trade, that’s exactly what we are effectively seeking. That nations are cautiously moving out of dollar holdings is revealed by the rather steady overall decline in the value of the dollar over the past three years. This will continue.
With the falling dollar, rising import prices and declining wages and salaries for American workers, the US is headed for a radically different lifestyle. Until US wages fall far enough to make us competitive with workers in developing nations, our decline will continue. Globalization let this evil genie out of it’s bottle, and it’s not clear that anything can force it back.
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Go to http://www.MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com and read articles and comments from other Americans on what they’ve witnessed in their communities around the country.
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Jobless rate for young workers in US highest since 1948
By James Brewer
22 April 2011
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THE REASON OUR BORDERS ARE HELD WIDE OPEN IS TO PERMIT HORDES MORE ILLEGALS OVER OUR BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
THE INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EVER EXPANDING MEXICAN WELFARE STATE PARTICULARLY DEPRESSES WAGES FOR BLACK AMERICA AND YOUNG WORKERS.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN MEXICO IS UNDER 6%...... IN PARTS OF CALIFORNIA, WHICH PAYS OUT $2O BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS, IT IS AS HIGH AS 29% IN SOME AREAS.
IN ALL OF MEXIFORNIA, “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGALS GET JOBS FIRST!
JOBS FOR MEXICANS, ALONG WITH “FREE” BIRTHING, “FREE” MEDICAL AT EMERGENCY ROOMS, OUR JOBS, AND FREE EDUCATION IS SO GOOD FOR MEXICANS HERE THAT MEXICO HAS EXPORTED 40 MILLION OF THEIR POOR, ILLITERATE, CRIMINAL AND PREGNANT OVER OUR BORDERS. …. ILLEGALS FROM CENTRAL AMERICAN THAT CROSS OVER INTO MEXICO, ON THEIR WAY TO AN AMERICAN JOBS, IS BEATEN UP AND PUT IN JAIL BY MEXICO! THERE IS !NO! WELFARE FOR MEXICO’S ILLEGALS, NOR WELFARE, NOR “FREE” MEDICAL, NOR JOBS! HIRE AN ILLEGAL IN MEXICO AND THE EMPLOYER REALLY DOES GO TO PRISON!
Not only has the Obama administration rejected out of hand a second stimulus package, let alone any government-funded jobs program, it is now embarking on a brutal austerity campaign that will slash whatever meager benefits young workers retain.
Mass unemployment is not an accident but a deliberate policy. The government and corporations are deliberately creating a “new normal” of mass unemployment in order to force young workers to accept poverty-level wages. These are the conditions that are driving the young generation into social struggle.
Jobless rate for young workers in US highest since 1948
By James Brewer
22 April 2011
This year’s graduates, from both high school and college, face a “dire labor market” with no safety net, a briefing paper released Wednesday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) warned. The report by the think tank notes that the unemployment rate in 2010 for young workers age 16-24 is the worst since this data has been tracked in 1948.
The report is a devastating refutation of the Obama administration’s talk of an “economic recovery.” Since 2007, unemployment rates for young people ages 16-24 not attending school roughly doubled. Compared to the official overall unemployment rate of 9.6 percent in 2010, the rate for that age group is roughly double, at 18.4 percent.
While high school graduates have been hardest hit, the unemployment rate for young college graduates is more than double the rate of college graduates 25 and older.
The paper, entitled “The class of 2011: Young workers face a dire labor market without a safety net”, presents a bleak picture for young jobseekers. Not only is unemployment highest among youth, there are no social programs to address their needs.
Additionally, over half of all college graduates from both public and private schools are burdened with at least $20,000 of debt. These are from 2009 figures. In the summer of 2010 the total debt from student loans overtook that of credit card debt for the first time in the US. Tuition has been rising drastically over the last two years, so the average student debt today is significantly higher.
The report details the lack of any social safety net for youth:
“Unemployment insurance (UI), the traditional assistance program that offers cash benefits to partially replace lost wages when a worker is laid off through no fault of their own, has strict eligibility requirements. A new entrant to the labor market is simply not eligible, no matter how scarce jobs are. Even those who have been laid off from a job must meet state requirements for wages earned and/or time worked during an established reference period. Young workers often fail these eligibility requirements due to their more intermittent attachment to the labor market.
“Furthermore, programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), also known as welfare, have work requirements and are only applicable to parents with children. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, does allow for able-bodied adults without dependents to collect benefits, but only for three months in a 36-month time period. Also, programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) are one of the many ‘work support’ systems in which eligibility requires employment.”
The rate that unemployment has risen among high school graduates is record-setting. The increase since 2007 “dwarfs the two prior recessions. In neither the 1990 nor 2001 recession did the 12-month moving-average unemployment rate for this group ever exceed 14.0%.”
The paper says that indicators show that youth are not “sheltering” in school to weather out the economic crisis. “While it is appealing to think that school can provide safe haven from a desperate labor market,” it is not evidenced by enrollment statistics.
The rate of “disconnected youth,” that is youth who are neither employed nor enrolled in school, increased to 17.6 percent in 2010. These conditions, where young people are both unable to find work or afford to attend school “or worse saddled with student loan debt,” have forced them to find support from parents and other family. The percentage of young people living at home has been spiking since 2007 and in 2010 is as high as it was in the late 1990s. “Needing family support makes young workers a burden” on the economy, the study says, requiring resources that would otherwise be spent elsewhere.
As bad as the unemployment rates for the 16-24 age group are, those for minority young workers are worse. While the overall jobless rate for high school graduates in that age group is 22.5 percent, it is 20.3 percent for white, 22.8 percent for Hispanic and 31.8 percent for black youth. The report notes that in times of economic downturn, the disparity of unemployment rates for minorities increases.
These figures understate the reality of the situation facing young people. Official unemployment rates are based on the number of workers actively seeking work through the channels that the states provide. Since social programs are virtually non-existent for young people, the figures are necessarily conservative.
The report correctly points out the lack of opportunities for young workers is not a matter of a lack of education or skills, a theme that is repeatedly peddled by the Obama administration and the news media. High unemployment among youth, it says, “did not arise because workers don’t have the right skills,” but “the class of 2011 is one of the many casualties of a lack of demand for workers in the overall economy.... The fact that the unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds has been well over 16% for two years straight underscores how premature is a deficit debate that fixates on deep cuts in federal spending.”
EPI is a liberal think tank, associated with the AFL-CIO. On this basis its report concludes, “to give a fighting chance” to young people, “we should focus the discussion on substantial additional stimulus spending to create jobs.”
Not only has the Obama administration rejected out of hand a second stimulus package, let alone any government-funded jobs program, it is now embarking on a brutal austerity campaign that will slash whatever meager benefits young workers retain.
Mass unemployment is not an accident but a deliberate policy. The government and corporations are deliberately creating a “new normal” of mass unemployment in order to force young workers to accept poverty-level wages. These are the conditions that are driving the young generation into social struggle.
The author also recommends:
The American student loan racket
[5 November 2010]
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“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
WHY THE NEW JOBS GO TO IMMIGRANTS
By David R. Francis
Wall Street cheered and stock prices rose when the US Labor Department announced last Friday that employers had expanded their payrolls by 262,000 positions in February.
But it wasn't entirely good news. The statisticians also indicated that the share of the adult population holding jobs had slipped slightly from January to 62.3 percent. That's now two full percentage points below the level in the brief recession that began in March 2001.
Why the apparent contradiction? Reasons abound: population growth, rising retirements. But one factor that gets little attention is immigration. In the past four years, the number of immigrants into the US, legal and illegal, has closely matched the number of new jobs. That suggests newcomers have, in effect, snapped up all of the new jobs. "There has been no net job gain for natives," says
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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EVER WONDER WHY NOTHING EVER COMES OUT OF THE BIG MOUTHS OF FEINSTEIN AND BOXER ON CA’S STAGGERING UNEMPLOYMENT? IT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE WORKING HARD FOR OBAMA’S AMNESTY, AND TO PUT ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS!
FEINSTEIN HIRES ILLEGALS AT HER S.F. HOTEL. OF COURSE, THEY’RE NOT REALLY ILLEGALS AS THEY HAVE POCKETFULS OF STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS!
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Feinstein and Boxer for Chain Migration! (Millions of Americans are out of work!)
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Urge your Rep. to Support H.R. 878 to Restrict Chain Migration!
This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey.
You can find this fax by proceeding to
http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=11563
Rep. Phil Gingrey has introduced the Nuclear Family Priority Act (H.R. 878), a bill that would would eliminate the extended family visa categories (e.g., married sons and daughters of citizens, etc.), thus ending “chain migration” as recommended by the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission in 1997. (Chain migration is the process where seemingly endless “chains” of foreign nationals are allowed to immigrate to the United States, since our laws allow citizens and lawful permanent residents to bring in their non-nuclear, adult family members. It is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple since the 1960s.) This bill would reduce overall immigration to the United States by over 111,000 per year.
Unfortunately, your Representative has not yet cosponsored H.R. 878. Please send your Representative a fax and urge him/her to support this great bill.
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Support American Workers - Enforce Immigration Laws
It is all about jobs…or at least that is what President Obama and leadership in Congress is telling us. So, why with unemployment hovering around 10 percent, are they reducing worksite enforcement of immigration laws?
Even though worksite enforcement opens jobs for Americans, when illegal workers are caught, they're released, so they can take another job. If that's not bad enough, the Obama Administration thinks it's OK to continue admitting more than a million foreign workers a year to take American jobs – all while American citizens and legal workers struggle to find decent wages to pay their mortgages and put food on the table.
FAIR, as part of The Coalition for the American Worker, has just launched two new TV ads that are running in markets around the country asking the President why he and leaders in Congress refuse to enforce our immigration laws, especially when Americans need jobs! Check out the ads below and make sure to forward them to your friends, family members, and colleagues.
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MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, AND HAS THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF HIGHLY VIOLENT MEXICAN GANGS IN THE NATION. THE MEXICAN TAX-FREE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IS CALCULATED TO BE OVER $2 BILLION PER YEAR. Really want Obama’s amnesty?
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http://www.wehirealiens.com/browse/index.asp
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“At the hearing, Dr. Rakesh Kochar, Associate Director for Research at the Pew Hispanic Center, testified that in the year following the official end of the recession (June 2009), foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while native-born workers lost an additional 1.2 million jobs.”
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POSTED! NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!
Dependence on illegal labor is the elephant in the room for the U.S. restaurant business. And experts say the Chipotle ICE investigations are a wake-up call for an industry that is one of America's biggest employers and generates over $300 billion in annual sales, according to research firm IBISWorld Inc.
In its annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission dated February 17, 2011, Chipotle Mexican Grill revealed that it fired approximately 450 workers at 50 of its restaurants in Minnesota last year as the result of an audit by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”
Eight Out of Ten Illegal Aliens Apprehended in 2010 Never Prosecuted, Says Border Congressman
Thursday, March 17, 2011
By Edwin Mora
Washington (CNSNews.com) – An illegal alien apprehended by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency during the last fiscal year had an estimated 84 percent chance of never being prosecuted, according to figures compiled by the office of Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas).
Culberson submitted the figures for the record during a hearing Wednesday of the House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security.
Of 447,731 illegal aliens apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol during fiscal year 2010 (which ended last September), only 73,263 (16.4 percent) were prosecuted, according to the submitted data. That means that 374,468 illegal aliens that were taken into custody (83.6 percent) were never prosecuted
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Support American Workers - Enforce Immigration Laws
It is all about jobs…or at least that is what President Obama and leadership in Congress is telling us. So, why with unemployment hovering around 10 percent, are they reducing worksite enforcement of immigration laws?
Even though worksite enforcement opens jobs for Americans, when illegal workers are caught, they're released, so they can take another job. If that's not bad enough, the Obama Administration thinks it's OK to continue admitting more than a million foreign workers a year to take American jobs – all while American citizens and legal workers struggle to find decent wages to pay their mortgages and put food on the table.
FAIR, as part of The Coalition for the American Worker, has just launched two new TV ads that are running in markets around the country asking the President why he and leaders in Congress refuse to enforce our immigration laws, especially when Americans need jobs! Check out the ads below and make sure to forward them to your friends, family members, and colleagues.
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WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD ENGLISH SPOKEN IN THE WORKFORCE?
The Emerging Third World U.S.
Francis Ferguson
OpEd News………February 26, 2008
I have an expression I present to my economics classes. It has a certain impact: the US is a third world nation, we just haven’t realized it yet. Our emerging status isn’t obvious. Products remain relatively cheap (energy excluded) despite the falling value of the dollar against most foreign currencies. But there are real signs.
Most Americans who are paying attention have noticed a long term decline in manufacturing jobs in the US. Quarter after quarter, year after year, the government reports job gains, but those gains are primarily in service industries: health care (we’re not talking doctors, here), restaurants and bars, retail trade and, until recently, construction. A close examination of the figures will usually reveal a decline in manufacturing jobs. This is not an accident.
The loss of American manufacturing jobs is largely the result of American firms moving their manufacturing off shore, to labor markets in which workers earn a tiny fraction of US wages. Once the globalization process began in earnest, it became impossible for many American firms to maintain US production even if the wished to. Keeping jobs here would render these firm uncompetitive as the rivals moved to take advantage of peasant wages in places like China , India and other developing nations.
Over the past 30 years, American manufacturing has moved offshore at an accelerating rate. Walk through any big box store (or any other for that matter) and look where things are made. Overwhelmingly, it’s China or other developing nations. The process is inexorable. With “Globalization” we have opened the world’s borders to free trade in goods and services. On the one hand, this has presented opportunities for US manufacturers to expand profits by shifting production to countries where wages are a tiny fraction of those in the United States. Goods made abroad can be sold at an attractive price in the US while still allowing producers to increase the difference between price and total cost, otherwise known a profit. Those companies with a sense of national pride and identity are, finally, forced to move some or all of their production offshore in order to survive.
Aside from the short term charm of finding bargains on the shopping rack, there are serious consequences here. Let’s look them. The first problem is the disappearance of the American “living wage”. The only reason Americans have managed to avoid confronting their declining real income per capita it by increasing the number of family members working. There was a time, in American mythology at least, when people accepted that one working family member could support 4 people at a reasonable standard of living. This was the vision of America Nixon and Krushchev debated, famously, at an exhibit of the postulated US living standards presented in the Soviet Union. This was the Ozzie and Harriet version of American life which was broadcast to the world and to the home audience as standard: the norm. It wasn’t, of course, but it was close enough to what middle America saw around them to be at least plausible. The incomes implicit in that early 1960’s view of American life may have improved until the early 1970’s (there was a war going on and war is always good for employment and incomes), but since that time statistics indicate that the real (inflation adjusted) incomes of American working people have actually declined.
Already, young people are finding no jobs, or a universe of job opportunities which pay poverty wages This is a problem that is not going away. It’s going to get worse.
A revealing example of this is the February 12th 2008 decision by General Motors to offer buyouts to all 74,000 union hourly workers. This followed closely a similar action by Ford. This would include severance packages for all employees, varying in terms depending on years of service. Relatively new employee’s would get a lump sum payment for leaving and forfeiting all health and post retirement benefits. The new workers, waiting in the wings, will earn on average $16 and hour as opposed to the current average $28 an hour. That rounds to a 43% reduction in income, and little is revealed about what benefits these new workers will receive, or whether or not the will have union representation—though I expect they will. Here is an example of a central, traditional area of American employment were workers are moving from an average of $58,240 pre tax per year to $33,280 pre tax. Obviously, these people have a surprising readjustment to make. They’re just the prominent tip of the iceberg. Already, young people are finding no jobs, or a universe of job opportunities which pay poverty wages. It’s why so many young workers (and unemployed youngsters) live at home
ASK HILLARY ABOUT NAFTA! What would Hillary’s CHAIN MIGRATION do? Except quadruple the number of illiterate Mexican gang!
This is a problem that is not going away. It’s going to get worse. Several convergent forces are leading to US economic destabilization. One force driving this tragedy is free trade, also called globalization. One of the more profound spokesmen on this subject is Paul Craig Roberts an economist in the Reagan Administration who has written extensively on the topic and lends support to the argument that globalization is on the verge of ruining the US economy.
The loss of American manufacturing jobs is largely the result of American firms moving their manufacturing off shore, to labor markets in which workers earn a tiny fraction of US wages. Once the globalization process began in earnest, it became impossible for many American firms to maintain US production even if the wished to. Keeping jobs here would render these firm uncompetitive as the rivals moved to take advantage of peasant wages in places like China , India and other developing nations. Even signature American enterprises such as Boing are moving larger segments of their airliner manufacturing to other countries. The finished sub assemblies for the 777 Dreamliner, for example, are flown to Seattle for final assembly. Highly skilled professionals, such as radiologists (medical doctors specializing in interpreting X rays) are finding their work sent via high speed communications to much lower paid radiologists in places like India. The effect of allowing the unimpeded flow of capital and goods and services between nations is precisely the same as allowing the free movement of people across borders. In the end, we will experience a relative equalization of wages, world wide. Obviously, those in the current Third World will find wages improving. With billions of impoverished workers waiting in the “wings”, US workers will find their wage declines much more starting and profound than the increases granted to the struggling poor of the developing world.
have financed the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The ultimate point, here, is the absolute unsustainability of the US’s position. We cannot expect our trading partners to hold dollars in unlimited quantities, and as we’ve no hope of being able to achieve a positive balance of trade, that’s exactly what we are effectively seeking. That nations are cautiously moving out of dollar holdings is revealed by the rather steady overall decline in the value of the dollar over the past three years. This will continue.
With the falling dollar, rising import prices and declining wages and salaries for American workers, the US is headed for a radically different lifestyle. Until US wages fall far enough to make us competitive with workers in developing nations, our decline will continue. Globalization let this evil genie out of it’s bottle, and it’s not clear that anything can force it back.
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