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"More
evidence that illegal immigrants are both taking jobs away from legal
Americans and undercutting their wage bargaining power."
March 26, 2016
Study: Employment rate of illegal immigrant men far higher than for legal immigrants and natives
A new study
by George Borjas from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University reveals what many have long been concerned about when
it comes to illegal immigration into the United States.
According
to Borjas' paper, the "employment rate of undocumented men is 86.6%, as
compared to 73.9% for natives and 77.8% for legal immigrants," and this
gap has been widening since the mid-1990s.
The
study shows that about 10% of all persons in their early 30s are
undocumented. In addition, 23% of illegal immigrants live in California,
7% reside in New York, and 15% live in Texas.
Borjas reached the following conclusions:
Even
after the regression exhaustively controls for... skill differences --
and adjusts for the possibility that economic conditions varied
dramatically over time for each of the narrowly defined skill groups, as
well as for the possibility that economic conditions varied
dramatically among the different geographic regions where the three
groups tend to settle -- it is still the case that the employment rate
of immigrants, and particularly that of undocumented immigrant men,
increased dramatically relative to that of native-born persons.
More
evidence that illegal immigrants are both taking jobs away from legal
Americans and undercutting their wage bargaining power.
Read more:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/study_employment_rate_of_illegal_immigrant_men_far_higher_than_for_legal_immigrants_and_natives.html#ixzz442MOR82B
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US employment report: Payrolls rise, wages fall
By Barry Grey
5 March 2016
President Barack Obama seized on
the February employment report, released Friday morning by the Labor
Department, to tout the supposed “success” of his economic policies and
paint a picture of a thriving US economy. The report, which showed a
larger-than-predicted growth in private nonfarm payrolls of 242,000
jobs, confirmed that the US economy was “the envy of the world,” Obama
told reporters at a White House appearance.
“The fact
of the matter is that the plans that we have put in place to grow the
economy have worked,” he boasted.” He derided “an alternative reality
out there from some of the political folks that America is down in the
dumps.” He countered, “America is pretty darn great right now.”
He
did not attempt to explain why the “alternative reality,” which his
labor secretary, Thomas Perez, attributed to “fear-mongers and
fact-deniers,” is believed by tens of millions of Americans, whose anger
over economic injustice is dramatically reflected in the current
election campaign.
One does not have to look too
closely at the Labor Department’s report, however, to get an idea of
what is fueling the social indignation of working people in the eighth
and final year of the Obama administration. Behind the top-line number
for new jobs and the quasi-fictional official unemployment rate of only
4.9 percent, ongoing trends with disastrous consequences for the working
class are evident. They account for two other important indices in the
report: a decline in average earnings from the previous month of 3
cents, or 0.1 percent, to $25.35, bringing the increase for the year
down to just 2.2 percent, and a fall in the average private-sector
workweek of 0.2 hours to 34.4 hours, a two-year low.
These
two figures arise from the fact that the vast bulk of new jobs created
in February were low-wage and a huge percentage were part-time. The
low-paying service sector—retail, bars and restaurants, health
care—accounted for 245,000 jobs. The reality of recession in basic
production was reflected in a 16,000 decline in manufacturing and the
loss of another 19,000 mining jobs, bringing to 171,000 the total
decline in mining since September 2014. The only better-paying
industrial sector that saw an increase was construction, which recorded a
gain of 19,000.
Another figure highlights the hollow
and socially regressive character of Obama’s so-called “recovery.” The
financial cable network CNBC pointed out that according to the Labor
Department’s household survey, which is the basis for the unemployment
rate figure (the figure on payroll growth is derived from a separate
survey of business establishments), full-time jobs increased in February
by only 65,000, while part-time positions increased by 489,000. This
means that a mere 11.7 percent of new jobs in February were full-time!
These
statistics point to the fact that the American ruling class, through
its instrument, the Obama administration, has utilized the financial
crash of 2008, for which it was responsible, to fundamentally reorganize
the US economy, transforming it into a low-wage system. The millions of
decent-paying jobs that were destroyed have been largely replaced by
poverty-wage, part-time and temporary jobs.
The median
household income has fallen sharply. Pensions and health benefits have
been gutted, schools closed by the thousands, teachers and other public
workers laid off by the millions. At the other end, the Federal Reserve
and the US Treasury have pumped trillions of dollars into the financial
markets, driving up the stock market and bringing the concentration of
wealth at the very top to unprecedented levels. This is what Obama lauds
as “success.”
Meanwhile, millions of Americans remain
mired in long-term unemployment. The number of long-term unemployed,
defined as without work for 27 weeks or more, was essentially unchanged
at 2.2 million in February. This number has not shifted significantly
since last June. The long-term jobless accounted last month for 27.7
percent of the unemployed, a far higher percentage than in any previous
period categorized as an economic recovery.
A broader
measure of unemployment that includes people working part-time but
wanting full-time work and those too discouraged to seek employment
registered 9.7 percent last month, nearly double the official jobless
rate. There are, in addition, millions of people who have dropped out of
the labor market and are not even counted in government employment
reports.
While the employment-to-population ratio edged
up to 59.8 percent and the labor force participation rate rose slightly
to 62.9 percent, both measures remain extraordinarily low by historical
standards.
The impact of soaring social inequality and falling
living standards for broad sections of the population is reflected in a
growing crisis in the retail sector. This week, sporting goods chain The
Sports Authority filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and
announced it was closing at least 140 of its 463 stores and laying off
3,400 of its 13,000 employees. This follows recent announcements by
Walmart, Sears/Kmart and Macy’s of hundreds of store closures and
thousands of layoffs.
Hillary
Clinton repeatedly claims that she is the champion of the little guy.
It has always been a risible claim, but if any of her supporters
(including at the Post) are actually paying attention to the scoundrel,
this latest gambit ought to disabuse them of the notion.
California Democrats, unions announce deal on $15 minimum wage
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS:
TRANSFERRING THE ECONOMY TO THE RICHEST, KEEPING THE BORDERS WIDE OPEN
TO FOR ENDLESS FLOODS OF ILLEGALS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND ENDLESS
CORPORATE WELFARE AND BAILOUT FOR THEIR CRONIES ON WALL STREET.
"Under the Obama administration, the Democrats have spearheaded
the attack on wages and benefits for higher paid workers as part of an
overall transfer of wealth to the financial elite."
California Democrats, unions announce deal on $15 minimum wage
By Marc Wells
30 March 2016
On Monday, California Governor Jerry Brown praised a tentative
agreement reached two days earlier between state legislators and trade
union leaders that, if finalized by the state assembly, would gradually
increase California’s minimum wage to $15 by 2022.
The
deal, which has many loopholes and conditions, is aimed at containing
deep opposition to poverty-level wages. Its basic political purpose is
to bolster support for the Democratic Party in the run-up to November’s
elections.
Under the
Obama administration, the Democrats have spearheaded the attack on
wages and benefits for higher paid workers as part of an overall
transfer of wealth to the financial elite.
The
agreement in California would raise the state-wide minimum wage from
its current level of $10 an hour to $10.50 in 2017, $11 in 2018, and one
dollar more per year through 2022. Businesses with fewer than 25
employees would have an additional year to comply.
Stressing
the conditional character of the proposed measure, Brown said on
Monday, “This plan raises the minimum wage in a careful and responsible
way and provides some flexibility if economic and budgetary conditions
change.” The governor can suspend any wage increase in the
event of a recession, an increase in the state budget deficit or higher official unemployment.
In
other words, the measure would be subordinated to “the vagaries of the
capitalist economy,” as Brown put it. This includes no guarantee that
workers currently making minimum wage will not be fired by the companies
they work for.
If adopted, the deal would
likely be followed by the suspension of two ballot initiatives sponsored
by different sections of the union apparatus, particularly the Service
Employees International Union
(SEIU), for the November elections.
These measures would have increased the minimum wage to $15 an hour by
2021 or 2022. By removing the issue from the ballot, legislators can
ensure that the details can becarefully crafted behind closed doors in
consultation with businesses.
BLOG: CA HANDS ILLEGALS $30 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES ON THE STATE LEVEL ALONE. COUNTIES PAY OUT EVEN MORE.
HALF THE POPULATION OF CA IS MEXICAN AND LA RAZA NOW CONTROLS BOTH HOUSES OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
Poverty-level
wages are pervasive throughout California and nationally, and the
current minimum wage is grossly inadequate to meet basic necessities.
According
to Rainmaker Insights, average monthly housing costs in San Francisco
are $3,770, and in Los Angeles $2,094. That is, average housing costs in
these two cities are the equivalent of a full-time job paying $21.75
and $12.08 an hour, respectively, before taxes.
California’s
cost of living is 151 percent of the national average, making it the
fifth most expensive state. More than 40 percent of the state’s
population lives either in poverty (earning less than about
$24,000
per year for a family of four) or near poverty, according to Census
data released in 2013. Children are worse off: nearly 50 percent were
poor or near poor in 2013.
Under these
conditions, the trade unions—closely allied with the Democratic Party
and supported by various organizations that operate in its orbit—have
advanced campaigns like “Fight for $15” and “Raise the Wage” to keep
opposition within a framework acceptable to the ruling class.
In
the presidential elections, Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders
has backed a $15 nationwide minimum wage, while Clinton has supported
raising the national rate to $12 an hour. Sanders’ role in
particular
has been to appeal to sections of youth and poorer workers in an effort
to bolster the Democratic Party, after more than seven years of the
Obama administration presiding over continuing austerity for the working
class.
The Obama administration and the
Democrats, no less than the Republicans, have supported the overall
assault on wages for the working class as a whole. Tellingly, in
California the median wage earner saw a decline of 6.2 percent in their
annual income between 2006 and 2011, triple the national average. This
included the years of Obama’s so-called economic recovery.
Nationally,
the White House sounded the signal for a nationwide attack on wages
through the restructuring of the auto industry in 2009, crafting a deal
that halved wages for new hires and relieved companies of their health
care obligations to retirees. This has been combined with the provisions
of the Affordable Care Act, which have encouraged companies to
eliminate health care plans and force workers to purchase insurance from
private companies.
Increasingly, $15 is
seen by the ruling class not so much as a minimum but as a maximum. What
were formerly higher paying jobs, including in manufacturing, are now
paying rates equivalent to low-wage service work.
In
the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis, moreover, low-wage
employment has been replacing jobs that once paid a decent salary. In an
earlier period, minimum wage jobs were mostly reserved for those
initially entering the workforce. Recent data from the Center for
Economic and Policy Research, however, shows that now only 12 percent of
minimum wage workers are teenagers.
From
the standpoint of the unions, a major aim is not only to promote the
Democratic Party but also to ensure their own position as junior
partners benefiting from the exploitation of the working class. In the
last few years, the unions have negotiated agreements with companies
that contain “escape clauses” relating to the minimum wage. Through
these contractual or legal mechanisms, the unions have been able to
bypass minimum wage requirements, thus leaving unionized workers earning
less than the minimum wage.
The
process is so effective that even the US Chamber of Commerce admitted
its advantages for employers. In a recent report, it noted that the
escape clause “is often designed to encourage unionization by making a
labor union the potential ‘low-cost’ alternative to new wage mandates,
and it raises serious questions about whom these minimum wage laws are
actually intended to benefit.”
Lastly,
an increase in wages to above poverty levels is seen as beneficial by
sections of the ruling class insofar as it will force reduce eligibility
for social programs such as Medi-Cal, the medical program for the poor,
whose threshold is set to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
Workers not qualifying for Medi-Cal would then be subject to the
requirements of Obama’s Affordable Care Act that they purchase insurance
from private companies on state-run exchanges.
Michigan Kids Count report shows drastic rise in child poverty over last decade
PEW: MEXICO BREEDS AN ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE OCCUPATION OF AMERICA
more here:
In
late 2015, the Pew Research Center came out with a population
projection that "non-Hispanic whites are projected to become
less than half of the US population by 2055."
Similarly, during 2014, researchers working with U.S. Census Bure...
"More
evidence that illegal immigrants are both taking jobs away from legal
Americans and undercutting their wage bargaining power."
March 26, 2016
Study: Employment rate of illegal immigrant men far higher than for legal immigrants and natives
A new study
by George Borjas from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University reveals what many have long been concerned about when
it comes to illegal immigration into the United States.
According
to Borjas' paper, the "employment rate of undocumented men is 86.6%, as
compared to 73.9% for natives and 77.8% for legal immigrants," and this
gap has been widening since the mid-1990s.
The
study shows that about 10% of all persons in their early 30s are
undocumented. In addition, 23% of illegal immigrants live in California,
7% reside in New York, and 15% live in Texas.
Borjas reached the following conclusions:
Even
after the regression exhaustively controls for... skill differences --
and adjusts for the possibility that economic conditions varied
dramatically over time for each of the narrowly defined skill groups, as
well as for the possibility that economic conditions varied
dramatically among the different geographic regions where the three
groups tend to settle -- it is still the case that the employment rate
of immigrants, and particularly that of undocumented immigrant men,
increased dramatically relative to that of native-born persons.
More
evidence that illegal immigrants are both taking jobs away from legal
Americans and undercutting their wage bargaining power.
Read more:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/study_employment_rate_of_illegal_immigrant_men_far_higher_than_for_legal_immigrants_and_natives.html#ixzz442MOR82B
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US employment report: Payrolls rise, wages fall
By Barry Grey
5 March 2016
President Barack Obama seized on
the February employment report, released Friday morning by the Labor
Department, to tout the supposed “success” of his economic policies and
paint a picture of a thriving US economy. The report, which showed a
larger-than-predicted growth in private nonfarm payrolls of 242,000
jobs, confirmed that the US economy was “the envy of the world,” Obama
told reporters at a White House appearance.
“The fact
of the matter is that the plans that we have put in place to grow the
economy have worked,” he boasted.” He derided “an alternative reality
out there from some of the political folks that America is down in the
dumps.” He countered, “America is pretty darn great right now.”
He
did not attempt to explain why the “alternative reality,” which his
labor secretary, Thomas Perez, attributed to “fear-mongers and
fact-deniers,” is believed by tens of millions of Americans, whose anger
over economic injustice is dramatically reflected in the current
election campaign.
One does not have to look too
closely at the Labor Department’s report, however, to get an idea of
what is fueling the social indignation of working people in the eighth
and final year of the Obama administration. Behind the top-line number
for new jobs and the quasi-fictional official unemployment rate of only
4.9 percent, ongoing trends with disastrous consequences for the working
class are evident. They account for two other important indices in the
report: a decline in average earnings from the previous month of 3
cents, or 0.1 percent, to $25.35, bringing the increase for the year
down to just 2.2 percent, and a fall in the average private-sector
workweek of 0.2 hours to 34.4 hours, a two-year low.
These
two figures arise from the fact that the vast bulk of new jobs created
in February were low-wage and a huge percentage were part-time. The
low-paying service sector—retail, bars and restaurants, health
care—accounted for 245,000 jobs. The reality of recession in basic
production was reflected in a 16,000 decline in manufacturing and the
loss of another 19,000 mining jobs, bringing to 171,000 the total
decline in mining since September 2014. The only better-paying
industrial sector that saw an increase was construction, which recorded a
gain of 19,000.
Another figure highlights the hollow
and socially regressive character of Obama’s so-called “recovery.” The
financial cable network CNBC pointed out that according to the Labor
Department’s household survey, which is the basis for the unemployment
rate figure (the figure on payroll growth is derived from a separate
survey of business establishments), full-time jobs increased in February
by only 65,000, while part-time positions increased by 489,000. This
means that a mere 11.7 percent of new jobs in February were full-time!
These
statistics point to the fact that the American ruling class, through
its instrument, the Obama administration, has utilized the financial
crash of 2008, for which it was responsible, to fundamentally reorganize
the US economy, transforming it into a low-wage system. The millions of
decent-paying jobs that were destroyed have been largely replaced by
poverty-wage, part-time and temporary jobs.
The median
household income has fallen sharply. Pensions and health benefits have
been gutted, schools closed by the thousands, teachers and other public
workers laid off by the millions. At the other end, the Federal Reserve
and the US Treasury have pumped trillions of dollars into the financial
markets, driving up the stock market and bringing the concentration of
wealth at the very top to unprecedented levels. This is what Obama lauds
as “success.”
Meanwhile, millions of Americans remain
mired in long-term unemployment. The number of long-term unemployed,
defined as without work for 27 weeks or more, was essentially unchanged
at 2.2 million in February. This number has not shifted significantly
since last June. The long-term jobless accounted last month for 27.7
percent of the unemployed, a far higher percentage than in any previous
period categorized as an economic recovery.
A broader
measure of unemployment that includes people working part-time but
wanting full-time work and those too discouraged to seek employment
registered 9.7 percent last month, nearly double the official jobless
rate. There are, in addition, millions of people who have dropped out of
the labor market and are not even counted in government employment
reports.
While the employment-to-population ratio edged
up to 59.8 percent and the labor force participation rate rose slightly
to 62.9 percent, both measures remain extraordinarily low by historical
standards.
The impact of soaring social inequality and falling
living standards for broad sections of the population is reflected in a
growing crisis in the retail sector. This week, sporting goods chain The
Sports Authority filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and
announced it was closing at least 140 of its 463 stores and laying off
3,400 of its 13,000 employees. This follows recent announcements by
Walmart, Sears/Kmart and Macy’s of hundreds of store closures and
thousands of layoffs.
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