The unemployment rate for foreign-born workers in the United States
is lower than the unemployment rate for native-born workers, according
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The BLS’s non-seasonally adjusted data show that unemployment among
foreign born workers in May 2012 was 7.4 percent, while for native-born
workers it was 8.0.
The data further show that while the working-age immigrant population in
the United States has increased since Barack Obama became president in
January 2009, immigrant participation in the labor force has declined.
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These illegal immigrants are too busy getting a free education.
ReplyDeleteThis is because Americans think many jobs are beneath them when the immigrants are just glad to be employed. Says something about work ethics.
ReplyDeleteand our current dictator obama just declared more illegals to remain so that number will go higher. isn't he special...
ReplyDeleteThis is a pretty stupid report. Immigrants don't qualify for unemployment so how can they be unemployed? Same thing with Obama's latest Dream Bull. You must be illegal to qualify for a work permit and amnesty. I can see it now:
ReplyDeleteAlien: Sheriff Joe, I'm illegal and under 30. Forgive me and give me a work permit.
Sheriff Joe: You're under arrest sucker. Next!
Just look at OC. Full of immigrants. This was happening long before Obama or even Bush (son). There are many companies in Salisbury who are full of immigrants. I remember when you could hire a kid to do your yardwork. Now it's hard to find a kid to do anything. On the street where I live most of the yards are done by immigrants. I'll hire a kid if you can find one.
ReplyDeleteTo 7:33, you're pretty stupid. The unemployment rate doesn't consist of those collecting unemployment benefits.
ReplyDeleteTo 7:33, you're pretty stupid. The unemployment rate doesn't consist of those collecting unemployment benefits.
ReplyDeleteJune 17, 2012 8:18 PM
I'm not the one you are addressing but could you explain how else they track the unemployed?
And could you do it without the name calling?
To 7:33, you're pretty stupid. The unemployment rate doesn't consist of those collecting unemployment benefits.
ReplyDeleteJune 17, 2012 8:18 PM
Here is something I found that may help you answer my question. I think you may want to re-word your insult to the guy. Or just say sorry and be done with it.
Joe, I don't go to other blogs much so I don't really know. But, are all blogs nasty, mean-spirited and just plain unfriendly as some of the people that comment on yours? Just asking.
Additional data are also available from the government, such as the unemployment insurance weekly claims report available from the Office of Workforce Security, within the U.S. Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration.[37] The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides up-to-date numbers via a PDF linked here.[38] The BLS also provides a readable concise current Employment Situation Summary, updated monthly.[39]
To 10:53 and 11:13, I called the commenter "stupid" simply because he used that word himself when attacking this article. I found it highly ironic that he would say something was stupid when he was completely ignorant of what the unemployment rate measures. So perhaps my name-calling was out of line, and for that I apologize. I probably should have said "ignorant." Rule one for commenting on a blog should be that you actually know what you are talking about.
ReplyDeleteThe unemployment rate isn't determined by how many people are receiving unemployment benefits. It is determined by a federal government survey of households.
The unemployment rate isn't determined by how many people are receiving unemployment benefits. It is determined by a federal government survey of households.
ReplyDeleteJune 18, 2012 8:20 AM
NO sir. I even helped you out with the answer. There are several steps to calculating the unemployment rate.
And counting person collecting benefits is one of them.
So again, you are condemning someone for the same thing you are doing.
No, 9:34, you are wrong. The unemployment rate as reported in the media (and the one reported in the link) is done through a survey, just as I said. That's how the BLS reports unemployment data.
ReplyDeleteThere are other measures of who is unemployed, and some measures do take into account who is receiving unemployment benefits, but that's not what we are talking about here.
The text you copied from Wikipedia says that there is a measurement of the number of people who get unemployment benefits. I never denied that. But the number of people who get these benefits is not the same as the unemployment rate.