AMERICA
GIVES UP ON JOBS, AS THE DEMS PROMISE ILLEGALS NO E-VERIFY AND A JOB FOR EVERY
DEM VOTE!
America's hidden unemployed: too discouraged to count
By Lucia Mutikani | Reuters – 4 hours
ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
- When Daniel McCune graduated from college three years ago, he was optimistic
his good grades would earn him a job as an intelligence analyst with the
government.
With a Bachelor of
Science degree from Liberty University in Virginia, majoring in government
service and history, McCune applied for jobs at the National Security Agency,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies.
But after a long hunt
that yielded only two interviews, the 26-year-old threw in the towel last fall,
joining millions of frustrated Americans who have given up looking for work.
"There's nothing
out there and there probably won't be anything for a while," said McCune,
from New Concord, Ohio. He has moved back home to live with his parents, who
are helping him pay off his college debt of about $20,000.
"I don't like
it, it's embarrassing. I don't want to be a burden to my parents," said
McCune, adding that he felt like a high school dropout.
Economists, analyzing
government data, estimate about 4 million fewer people are in the labor force
than in December 2007, primarily due to a lack of jobs rather than the normal
aging of America's population. The size of the shift underscores the severity
of the jobs crisis.
If all those
so-called discouraged jobseekers had remained in the labor force, August's
jobless rate of 8.1 percent would have been 10.5 percent.
The jobs crisis
spurred the Federal Reserve last week to launch a new bond-buying program and
promise to keep it running until the labor market improves. It also poses a
challenge to President Barack Obama's re-election bid.
The labor force
participation rate, or the proportion of working-age Americans who have a job
or are looking for one has fallen by an unprecedented 2.5 percentage points
since December 2007, slumping to a 31-year low of 63.5 percent.
"We never had a
drop like that before in other recessions. The economy is worse off than people
realize when people just look at the unemployment rate," said Keith Hall,
senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in
Arlington, Virginia.
The participation
rate would be expected to hold pretty much steady if the economy was growing at
a normal pace. Only about a third of the drop in the participation rate is
believed to be the result of the aging U.S. population.
SLOW PROGRESS
The economy lost 8.7
million jobs in the 2007-09 recession and has so far recouped a little more
than half of them.
Economists say jobs
growth of around 125,000 per month is normally needed just to hold the jobless
rate steady.
Given the likelihood
that Americans will flood back into the labor market when the recovery gains
traction, a pace twice that strong would be needed over a sustained period to
make progress reducing the unemployment rate.
Last month, employers
created just 96,000 jobs.
Roslyn Swan lost her
job in 2007 as a portfolio associate at a financial firm in New York. After
submitting hundreds of applications, the 44-year-old is taking a break.
"Maybe after the
elections," Swan said of her next attempt to get work. "I know that I
will be employed again. I don't know when, but I know it will happen."
Americans of all ages
are leaving the workforce, but the problem is most acute in the 20-24 age group,
where the participation rate has plunged by 4.4 percentage points since
December 2007.
Many Americans
typically start working in their teens, taking part-time jobs after school and
over summer vacations, a tradition that is supposed to instill a work ethic.
With many failing to secure jobs after graduating from high school and college,
analysts worry about U.S. competitiveness.
"Because of
delays to their career, the skills set accumulation that normally happens in
the first or third job is not happening," said Paul Conway, president of
Generation Opportunity in Washington, a non-profit, non-partisan organization
that works with 18- to 29-year-olds on economic issues.
TOUGH ON YOUNG
WORKERS
Last month, the
proportion of 20- to 24-year-olds in the labor force was its lowest since 1972.
Other age categories are faring little better. The 25-54 age group has seen a
decline of 1.8 percentage points since December 2007.
Some, like
27-year-old Casey Potts, have gone back to school. She is studying nursing in
Kentucky after losing her medical sales job.
"If I had stayed
in medical sales, I would be job searching now," said Potts.
But separate surveys
by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and Generation Opportunity found little
evidence that young people were going back to school when unable to land a job.
One deterrent is the
rising cost of education and record levels of student debt. About two-thirds of
2012 college graduates left school in debt, owing on average $28,700 in student
loans, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org.
"Young people
dropping out of the labor force to go back to school would be a silver lining
if it were true," said Heidi Shierholz, a senior EPI economist, adding
that enrollment had gradually been increasing for decades.
A Generation
Opportunity survey published in August showed a third of young people were
putting off additional training and post-graduate studies because of the sour
economy.
"This is
significant. People are making the decision to put those off because the assurance
of a return to investment is not there," said the non-profit's Conway, a
veteran observer of the labor market as a former Department of Labor chief of
staff.
He said his
organization found that young people were doing unpaid internships at nonprofit
groups and businesses to prevent their skills from atrophying. Others were
joining the military.
Some economists say
the participation rate does not paint a true picture because people find work
in the informal sector, ranging from legal activities such as child care to
crime in some cases.
"People are
picking a buck here and there and not being reported in anybody's
payroll," said Patrick O'Keefe, head of economic research at J.H. Cohn in
Roseland, New Jersey.
"They will say
they are not doing anything, even as they have a job and are being paid under
the table," said O'Keefe, a former deputy assistant secretary at the Labor
Department. "We do not know to what extent that is going on."
(Additional reporting
by Jilian Mincer in New York; writing by Lucia Mutikani; editing by William
Schomberg)
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latimes.com
Opinion
California
must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The
state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits,
deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize
'sanctuary' cities.
Illegal immigration is another matter entirely.
With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state
prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot
continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and
economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each
year. As economist Philip J. Romero
concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal
California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."
OBAMA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AWOL ON JOBS… UNLESS THEY’RE FOR
ILLEGALS!
TO BUILD HIS LA RAZA ‘THE RACE’ PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS,
OBAMA HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY, SUED AZ, A STATE UNDER MEX SIEGE, TO BLOCK
E-VERIFY, HAS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS AS HIS SEC. of (illegal) LABOR!
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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."
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LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS, SEC.
OF DEPT OF LABOR.
Michelle Malkin
LA RAZA HILDA SOLIS - The U.S.
Department of Illegal Alien Labor
President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda
Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that
this longtime open--borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical
definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project
conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous
applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not."
That's right. The woman in charge of
enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws
---- or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules
in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.
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FROM JUDICIAL WATCH .org
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Labor Secretary Pledges Help For
Illegal Workers
Last Updated: Tue,
06/22/2010 - 11:00am
Two
months after the Department of Labor launched a special program to assist and
protect illegal immigrants in the U.S. the Obama cabinet official who heads the
agency is personally encouraging undocumented workers to report employers that
don’t pay them fairly.
In
a Spanish-language public service announcement, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
assures that “every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly, whether
documented or not.” Illegal aliens who are not getting fair wages are
encouraged to call a new hotline set up by the agency on a new “Podemos Ayudar” (We
Can Help) web page designed to administer worker protection laws and ensure
that employees are properly paid “regardless of immigration status.”
In
the short video, also posted in English, Solis tells illegal immigrants that
it’s a “serious problem” when workers in this country are not paid fairly and
that all workers have the right to receive their salary regardless of
immigration status. She encourages those who are not to call the new hotline
and assures it’s free and confidential. “Podemos ayudar,” (we can help), Solis
guarantees at the end of the brief segment.
The
Labor Secretary’s new message is part of a campaign launched a few months ago
to help illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., who she refers to as “vulnerable” and
“underpaid.” At least 1,000 new
field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas
with large numbers of illegal alien employees and the agency will focus on
enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal
aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.
For
a government agency to protect law breakers in this fashion may seem
unbelievable but not if you consider the source. A Former California
congresswoman, Solis has close ties to the influential La Raza movement that
advocates open borders and rights for illegal immigrants. She made the
protection of undocumented workers a major priority upon being named Labor
Secretary, assuring illegal aliens that “if you work in this country, you are
protected by our laws.”
"While the declining job market in
the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of
illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as
drug-smuggling "mules."
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OBAMA’S HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA –
HOW DOES HE EXPLAIN THAT TO BLACK AMERICA? HE DOESN’T BOTHER!
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Newsmax
Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America
Monday, January 10, 2011 08:28 AM
By: James Walsh
Casting a shadow on economic recovery
efforts in the United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes
U.S. taxpayer dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and
criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct,
"undocumented immigrants") with ties to Mexican drug cartels are
contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border.
While the declining job market in the
United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of
illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as
drug-smuggling "mules."
Increasingly vicious foot soldiers of
the Mexican drug cartels are taking control of U.S. lands along the border,
especially since U.S. Border Patrol units have been reassigned, some to offices
60 to 80 miles inland.
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