Center for Immigration Studies Employment Report Shows Too Little Progress for American Workers

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Center for Immigration Studies Employment Report Shows Too Little Progress for American Workers
 
Wed, May 17th 2017 @ 5:00 pm EDT  by  Eric Ruark

The Center for Immigration Studies has released employment data for the first quarter (Q1) of 2017, taken from the Current Population Survey. These figures show that the employment situation for Americans is considerably better now than it was in 2009, but not as favorable as before the Great Recession. Much of this has to do with the increase in the total working-age population, driven by immigration, outpacing job creation over the past decade.

While the official unemployment rate for U.S. citizens ages 18 to 65 has significantly decreased over the past few years, down to 4.8 percent in Q1 2017, the labor force participation rate – the percentage of working-age persons active in the labor market (either employed or officially unemployed) – in the words of CIS “remains abysmal.”

https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/center-immigration-studies-employment-report-shows-too-little-progress-american-workers

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Participation rate worst for those without a bachelor's degree. The blue collar folk Trump focused on in the campaign. Dubbed the "white working class," they should be, percentage-wise, more non-white.

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Participation rate worst for those without a bachelor's degree. The blue collar folk Trump focused on in the campaign. Dubbed the "white working class," they should be, percentage-wise, more non-white.