There Is No American Worker
Shortage
By Michelle Malkin
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2020/02/26/there-is-no-american-worker-shortage-n2561917
No
Labor Shortage: 11M Americans Out of Work, but All Want Full-Time Jobs
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10 Jan 20201,070
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There remain more than 11 million
Americans who are out of work but want full-time jobs, despite claims by
corporate interests and the big business lobby of a so-called “labor shortage.”
The latest unemployment data from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals there is still slack in the labor market
for disenfranchised Americans to enter the workforce rather than business
bringing foreign workers to the U.S. to take jobs.
Overall, about 5.8 million Americans
are unemployed — 12.6 percent of whom are teenagers who generally seek
entry-level jobs and 5.9 percent of whom are black Americans. These nearly six
million unemployed also include about 1.2 million Americans who are considered
“long-term unemployed” because they have been out of work for more than six
months.
Another 4.1 million Americans are
working part-time jobs but want full-time employment. Additionally, 1.2 million
Americans are out of the labor force entirely after looking for a job sometime
within the last year. These marginally attached Americans are available for
work and want full-time jobs.
Roughly 277,000 of the 1.2 million
Americans out of the labor force completely are considered “discouraged
workers” because they do not believe there are jobs in the labor market for
them.
In total, about 11.1 million
Americans are either unemployed, out of the labor force, or underemployed;
however, all have said they want good-paying, full-time jobs.
The
constant cry from corporate lobbyist @USChamber and "newsplainer" @voxdotcom is that America is "running out of workers." If that were true
there wouldn't be people to come off the sidelines and take jobs.
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