FEDS PREDICT
SOARING UNEMPLOYMENT UNTIL PAST 2015… Good time for amnesty?
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/04/obamas-amnesty-and-soaring-unemployment.html
DURING OBAMA’S FIRST TERM
2/3s OF ALL JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL. FEDERAL WORKPLACE
ENFORCEMENT of LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT of ILLEGALS PLUMMETD 70%... AND OBAMA - HOLDER SABOTAGED E-VERIFY EVERYWHERE THEY COULD TO EASE MORE LA RAZA INTO OUR JOBS!
Obama and Justice
Sotomayor (A LA RAZA PARTY MEMBER) Vow to Illegals to SABOTAGE E-verify!
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
Lou Dobbs
Tonight Tuesday July 8, 2008
Sens. McCain and Obama are fiercely courting the Latino
vote. Last month they spoke to the National Association of Latino Elected and
Appointed Officials; today it’s the League of United Latin American Citizens’
national convention; and this weekend they’re set to address the National
Council of La Raza, one of the most radical socioethnocentric interest groups
in the country.
OBAMA’S WALL
STREET-FUNDED ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS SURGES!
OBAMA’S
HOUSING CON-JOB… IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT WALL STREET.. HOW HE CAN SERVICE HIS
BANKSTER DONORS, THE 1% AND LA RAZA ILLEGALS.
As with
all other initiatives Obama has undertaken, from healthcare, to immigration, to
education “reform,” the basic parameters of his policies have been tailored to
suit the interests of Wall Street and big business, while couched in the
language of helping the “middle class,” combating inequality, and creating
jobs.
THE ABYSMAL FAILURE OF BARACK OBAMA – THE BIGGEST CON JOB IN AMERICAN HISTORY, AND BUSH’S THIRD and FOURTH TERMS… A MAN REELECTED BY ILLEGALS AND FUNDED BY CRIMINAL WALL STREET BANKSTERS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-failed-presidency-of-bankster-owned.html
WHAT IS OBAMA’S TRUE AMNESTY AGENDA? TO HAND AMERICAN OVER TO 40 MILLION
MEXICANS and EXPAND THE LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE? OR TO DESTROY THE GOP
WITH 40 MILLION NEW UNREGISTERED DEMS VOTING TO EXPAND LA RAZA SUPREMACY IN
AMERICA???
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/07/will-obamas-amnesty-hoax-destroy-gop-or.html
WILL
ASSAULTING AMERICAN WORKERS AND EASING MORE ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS BUY THE LA
RAZA SUPREMACY VOTE?
The LIES, the SPIN and then even more LIES!
THIS CLOWN HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY
ALONG WITH OUR LAWS AND BORDERS FROM DAY ONE TO BUILD HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE of
ILLEGALS.
HE SAYS HE WILL NOT ENFORCE
E-VERIFY UNLESS IT IS HIDDEN IN A BLANKET AMNESTY HE AND LA RAZA WROTE WITH
MUCHO MAS DEVICES HE CAN USE TO SABOTAGE IT MORE!
President Barack Obama endorsed the
idea at a White House news conference in late June, saying he'd support
requiring the use of E-Verify "if it's not riddled with errors" and
if it's part of a comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws... THE AFORMENTIONED COMMENT WAS LA RAZA TALK FOR NO ENFORCEMENT!
By Shannon Jones
14 August 2013
Behind the job figures of recent months lies an underlying reality of continued hardship for millions of unemployed and partially employed workers in the United States.
US employers added 162,000 nonfarm jobs in July according to the government’s Establishment Data Survey, an anemic number considerably below predictions. However, a closer look reveals another serious problem.
“Over the last six months, of the net job creation, 97 percent of that is part-time work,” said Keith Hall, a senior researcher at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center quoted by McClatchy Washington Bureau. Hall was head of the US Bureau of Labor (BLS) Statistics from 2008 to 2012.
Citing the BLS Household Survey, Hall said that over the past six months 963,000 more people reported that they were employed while 936,000 of them reported they were in part-time jobs. Hall continued, “That is a really high number for a six-month period. I am not sure that has ever happened over six months before.”
In an interview last month on Fox’s “Your World,” Hall argued that the real unemployment rate was significantly higher than the official number, at least 3 percentage points more. While 11.2 million people are now considered officially unemployed, Hall said a more realistic number was around 18 million.
He prefers to use the employment ratio, which shows the proportion of the population that has a job. That number fell from 63 percent before the recession started in December 2007 to 59.4 percent when the recession officially ended in June 2009. Since that time it has fallen even further, to just 58.7 percent.
Further distorting the picture is the fact that part-time workers are counted as employed.
Hall commented, “So a smaller percentage of the population is now working, yet the unemployment rate went from 10 percent down to 7.6 percent. That’s a problem.”
Currently there are some 8.2 million workers who are working part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time employment. However, not only are the majority of new jobs part-time, they have been largely concentrated in traditionally low-wage sectors such as retail, restaurants, home health care and temporary staffing agencies. Those four sectors accounted for 45 percent of new jobs. Altogether, sixty-one percent of new jobs created this year have been in low-paying industries. Middle-income jobs accounted for 22 percent while high-paying jobs accounted for less than 17 percent.
According to a report from the University of Hew Hampshire’s Carsey Institute, the largest increase in involuntary part-time employment since the 1970s occurred between 2007 and 2012. The report is titled, “Wanting More but Working Less: Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Economic Vulnerability.” It notes that the involuntary part-time employment rate doubled between 2007 and 2012. For women it rose from 3.6 percent to 7.8 percent, and for men it increased from 2.4 percent to 5.9 percent.
While the official unemployment rate has fallen since 2010, the number of part-time workers has remained fairly constant. The study documents that part-time work is a contributing factor to poverty, with one in four involuntary part-time workers living in poverty, while just one in twenty full-time workers live in poverty. In 2012, involuntary part-time workers were nearly five times more likely than full-time workers to have spent more than three months of the previous year unemployed.
The growth of part-time work has many serious implications. The results of a Gallup poll indicate that part-time workers are more susceptible to depression than those working full-time. Of the 27 million part-time workers, one in twelve are currently being treated for depression, a rate that is about 50 percent higher than the rate among full-time workers.
Among displaced workers—those who have suffered the loss of a job or cutback in hours to part time—concerns over retirement security are growing. Transamerica’s annual retirement survey found that 62 percent of displaced workers were not confident about having a secure retirement.
Many displaced workers have been forced to take money from retirement savings to pay current expenses. The typical displaced worker has just $7,500 in retirement savings, while workers in their fifties have only $16,000.
Forty-two percent of those displaced for a year or more had to make withdrawals from retirement savings. That compares to less than 23 percent for those displaced less than a year.
Further, according to the National Institute on Retirement Security, 45 percent of working-age households have no retirement savings at all. Ninety-two percent of all households do not meet conservative retirement savings targets for their age and income.
The report notes that the collective retirement savings gap among working households aged 25-64 is staggering, ranging from $6.8 trillion to $14 trillion depending on which measure is used. When all households are included, not just those with retirement accounts, the median retirement account balance is $3,000 for all working-age households and $12,000 for near-retirement households.
“The heart of the issue consists in two problems: lack of access to retirement plans in and out of the workplace – particularly among low-income workers and families – and low retirement savings,” said the NIRS report. “These twin challenges amount to a severe retirement crisis that, if unaddressed, will result in grave consequences.”
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US employers added 162,000 nonfarm jobs in July according to the government’s Establishment Data Survey, an anemic number considerably below predictions. However, a closer look reveals another serious problem.
“Over the last six months, of the net job creation, 97 percent of that is part-time work,” said Keith Hall, a senior researcher at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center quoted by McClatchy Washington Bureau. Hall was head of the US Bureau of Labor (BLS) Statistics from 2008 to 2012.
Citing the BLS Household Survey, Hall said that over the past six months 963,000 more people reported that they were employed while 936,000 of them reported they were in part-time jobs. Hall continued, “That is a really high number for a six-month period. I am not sure that has ever happened over six months before.”
In an interview last month on Fox’s “Your World,” Hall argued that the real unemployment rate was significantly higher than the official number, at least 3 percentage points more. While 11.2 million people are now considered officially unemployed, Hall said a more realistic number was around 18 million.
He prefers to use the employment ratio, which shows the proportion of the population that has a job. That number fell from 63 percent before the recession started in December 2007 to 59.4 percent when the recession officially ended in June 2009. Since that time it has fallen even further, to just 58.7 percent.
Further distorting the picture is the fact that part-time workers are counted as employed.
Hall commented, “So a smaller percentage of the population is now working, yet the unemployment rate went from 10 percent down to 7.6 percent. That’s a problem.”
Currently there are some 8.2 million workers who are working part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time employment. However, not only are the majority of new jobs part-time, they have been largely concentrated in traditionally low-wage sectors such as retail, restaurants, home health care and temporary staffing agencies. Those four sectors accounted for 45 percent of new jobs. Altogether, sixty-one percent of new jobs created this year have been in low-paying industries. Middle-income jobs accounted for 22 percent while high-paying jobs accounted for less than 17 percent.
According to a report from the University of Hew Hampshire’s Carsey Institute, the largest increase in involuntary part-time employment since the 1970s occurred between 2007 and 2012. The report is titled, “Wanting More but Working Less: Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Economic Vulnerability.” It notes that the involuntary part-time employment rate doubled between 2007 and 2012. For women it rose from 3.6 percent to 7.8 percent, and for men it increased from 2.4 percent to 5.9 percent.
While the official unemployment rate has fallen since 2010, the number of part-time workers has remained fairly constant. The study documents that part-time work is a contributing factor to poverty, with one in four involuntary part-time workers living in poverty, while just one in twenty full-time workers live in poverty. In 2012, involuntary part-time workers were nearly five times more likely than full-time workers to have spent more than three months of the previous year unemployed.
The growth of part-time work has many serious implications. The results of a Gallup poll indicate that part-time workers are more susceptible to depression than those working full-time. Of the 27 million part-time workers, one in twelve are currently being treated for depression, a rate that is about 50 percent higher than the rate among full-time workers.
Among displaced workers—those who have suffered the loss of a job or cutback in hours to part time—concerns over retirement security are growing. Transamerica’s annual retirement survey found that 62 percent of displaced workers were not confident about having a secure retirement.
Many displaced workers have been forced to take money from retirement savings to pay current expenses. The typical displaced worker has just $7,500 in retirement savings, while workers in their fifties have only $16,000.
Forty-two percent of those displaced for a year or more had to make withdrawals from retirement savings. That compares to less than 23 percent for those displaced less than a year.
Further, according to the National Institute on Retirement Security, 45 percent of working-age households have no retirement savings at all. Ninety-two percent of all households do not meet conservative retirement savings targets for their age and income.
The report notes that the collective retirement savings gap among working households aged 25-64 is staggering, ranging from $6.8 trillion to $14 trillion depending on which measure is used. When all households are included, not just those with retirement accounts, the median retirement account balance is $3,000 for all working-age households and $12,000 for near-retirement households.
“The heart of the issue consists in two problems: lack of access to retirement plans in and out of the workplace – particularly among low-income workers and families – and low retirement savings,” said the NIRS report. “These twin challenges amount to a severe retirement crisis that, if unaddressed, will result in grave consequences.”
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Low-wage America
7 August 2013
Not only is the US economy adding too few jobs to make a significant dent in mass unemployment, the vast majority of the new jobs that are being created are part-time or temporary, and pay far less than those that were eliminated during the 2008-2009 downturn.Of the lackluster total of 162,000 jobs added last month, a staggering two-thirds were part-time, and most were in low-wage sectors, according to the latest US jobs report, published last Friday by the Labor Department.
Over the past four months, the US economy has added 791,000 new part-time jobs, but only 187,000 full-time jobs. This is despite the fact that part-time work makes up less than 20 percent of all existing employment in the US.
Sixty-one percent of the jobs created so far this year have been in low-paying industries, even though employment in these sectors constitutes less than 40 percent of total jobs in the US, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics. The fastest job growth has been in retail sales, food preparation, freight and warehouse work, wait staff, and home health care—positions that pay less than $12 an hour.
The Moody’s report noted that middle-income jobs have constituted less than 22 percent of new jobs added so far this year, while high-paying jobs have amounted to less than 17 percent.
Partly as a result of the growth of low-wage employment, average hourly earnings fell by two cents last month, to $23.98. This is on top of an enormous erosion of wages over the past five years. Between 2007 and 2011, the US median household income plunged by 11.6 percent, from $57,143 (in 2011 dollars) to $50,502, according to Census Bureau figures.
A 2012 report by the National Employment Law Project found that low-wage jobs, paying between $7.69 and $13.83, constituted the majority of jobs created in the US since the 2008 Wall Street crash. By contrast, medium-wage jobs—which made up 60 percent of the job losses during the economic downturn—represented only 22 percent of job growth during the “economic recovery.”
The overwhelming growth of low-wage and part-time employment has contributed to a significant increase of poverty and social distress.
Last month, the Associated Press reported that four in five Americans are “economically insecure”—meaning they have had an income below 150 percent of the poverty line, have been unemployed, or have relied on anti-poverty programs such as food stamps for a year or more of their lives.
Automotive manufacturers, including General Motors, Volkswagen and BMW, have responded to the 2008 downturn by vastly expanding their use of temporary labor. Particularly in plants in the US South, such as Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee facility, auto makers carry out all new hiring for production jobs through temporary agencies. These employees can be fired at will and without cause.
A full 12 percent of the American work force, 17 million people, are employed in temporary jobs, the Associated Press reported last year. The number of temporary jobs has increased by more than 50 percent since 2009, according to Labor Department figures.
The extraordinary growth of temporary employment is by no means a solely American phenomenon. A report by England’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development showed that more than one million workers in the UK have so-called “zero-hour” employment contracts, i.e., there is no guarantee the employees will work even one hour per week.
Far from being an aberration or anomaly, the vast expansion of low-wage work in the United States is the deliberate policy of the Obama administration and both political parties, which are working to boost the profits of the corporations by driving down labor costs.
This was made clear by Obama’s decision last week to make a major economic policy speech at a Chattanooga, Tennessee warehouse run by Amazon.com, which is notorious for subjecting its fulfillment center employees to brutally low wages and sweatshop conditions.
The base pay for workers at Amazon’s fulfillment centers is $11 per hour, and up to half of the work force is contracted from temporary employment agencies during busy periods. Employees are made to work in extreme temperatures, are prevented from speaking with one another, subjected to personal searches, and routinely threatened with termination.
Praising the company’s “job creation” in his speech, Obama declared that “Amazon is a great example of what’s possible.” Obama called for “new tax credits so communities hit hardest by plant closures can attract new investment.” The Amazon fulfillment center where he was speaking is exactly the type of “new investment” to which Obama was referring. It received a waiver on state taxes from Tennessee, which has among the highest unemployment rates in the country, in exchange for opening up two warehouses in the state.
Despite Obama’s rhetoric about creating “decent-paying” and “middle class” jobs, the reality is that his administration has made the slashing of workers’ wages a deliberate goal, beginning with the 2009 restructuring of Chrysler and General Motors, in which Obama’s Auto Task Force made the imposition of a 50 percent wage cut for new-hires the condition for providing bailout funds to the US auto makers.
This policy is shared by both political parties in the US and the ruling classes of all countries. Earlier this year, Maria Damanaki, Greece’s representative to the European Commission, told Greece’s Vima FM radio that “the strategy of the European Commission over the past year-and-a-half or two has been to reduce the labour costs in all European countries in order to improve the competitiveness of European companies over the rivals from Eastern Europe and Asia.”
Low wages, abusive working conditions, and permanent job insecurity are all that the capitalist system has to offer working people. The only way to guarantee decent wages and living standards is to replace this obsolete social order, based on the domination of a handful of millionaires and billionaires over all aspects of social life, with a system—socialism—based on the satisfaction of social needs, not the enrichment of a privileged few.
Kristina Betinis and Andre Damon
Obama and Justice Sotomayor (A LA RAZA
PARTY MEMBER) Vow to Illegals to
SABOTAGE E-verify!
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
during Obama's first term, 2/3s of all jobs went to immigrants... BOTH LEGAL and ILLEGAL... and workplace enforcement of FED LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS plummeted 70%!
given Obama was reelected by LA RAZA, enforcement is expected to be nonexistent.
MORE HERE:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/02/obamas-amnesty-thrust-illegal-in-every.html
OBAMA and HIS BANKS: THEIR PROFITS,
CRIMES and LOOTING SOAR
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The danger, as Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson argues, is that of “importing poverty” in the form of a new underclass—a permanent group of working poor.
THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/03/assualt-on-american-worker-joe-legal-vs.html
Unemployment
rates rise in 28 US states in June…… Obama’s solution? amnesty for 40 million
“unregistered” Mexican dems and legalization of Mexico’s looting!
more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast
The danger, as Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson argues, is that of “importing poverty” in the form of a new underclass—a permanent group of working poor.
THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/03/assualt-on-american-worker-joe-legal-vs.html
"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." REP. LAMAR SMITH – OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!
LA
RAZA SUPREMACY and the MEXICAN WELFARE
STATE IN AMERICA THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
BUILTOFF THE BACKS of AMERICANS (Legals)
ROBERT RECTOR: THE STAGGERING COST OF
MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EVER GROWING WELFARE STATE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/08/robert-rector-unfettered-immigration.html
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