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Title: November’s Job Numbers: Good for immigrants; Bad for the Rest of Us
Source: VDARE
URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/051202_nd.htm
Published: Dec 2, 2005
Author: Edwin S. Rubenstein
Post Date: 2005-12-04 16:52:36 by robin
Ping List: *The Border*
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VDARE.COM - http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/051202_nd.htm

December 02, 2005

National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein

November’s Job Numbers: Good for immigrants; Bad for the Rest of Us

U.S. job market sprang back last month from a hurricane-induced slowdown as nonfarm employers added 215,000 workers, according to the government’s report on business payrolls.

But another report—the one based on a survey of households—reported a 52,000 job decline from October. More important, from our perspective, is the composition of that decline:
bullet Non-Hispanic employment fell by 183,000;

bullet Hispanic employment rose by 131,000.

Thus non-Hispanics bore the full brunt of the November job decline, according to the Household survey.

To be sure, the Household survey is dismissed by MSM pundits as quirky and unreliable. Yet over the past the past year it has closely tracked the more widely cited Payroll Survey: Both surveys report that about 2 million jobs were created over the past 12 months. But only the Household Survey presents monthly job data by race and ethnicity.

Neither Survey asks about immigration status. (Memo to Bush Administration: why not direct them to add this useful question?). But because about half of the Hispanics in the U.S. are foreign-born, we use it as a proxy for immigrant impact on American workers.

Note this statistical wrinkle: the overall Hispanic unemployment rate rose to 6.0 percent in November from 5.8 percent the prior month. The black unemployment rate increased even more—to 10.6 percent from October’s 9.1. The white unemployment rate fell slightly, to 4.3 percent from 4.4 percent.

The big difference, of course, was that Hispanics poured into the labor force (their labor force participation rate went up) while Blacks and whites retreated (their’s went down.)

After taking labor force participation rates into account, the real increase in the black unemployed is larger, and the increase in the Hispanic unemployed smaller, than their respective unemployment rates indicate.

In a word, November’s data paint a classic picture of Hispanics (and, by extension, immigrants) displacing and discouraging blacks and unskilled whites in American labor force. It’s a story we often tell in graphic form, as follows:

Since the start of the Bush Administration in January 2001 Hispanic employment has risen by 2.9 million, or 17.8 percent, while non-Hispanic employment increased by 1.9 million, or 1.6 percent.

The ratio of the growth rates, which we call VDAWDI (the VDare.com American Worker Displacement Index) rose to a record 116.0 in November, from 115.0 the prior month.

Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants in Indianapolis.

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#1. To: robin (#0)

bullet Non-Hispanic employment fell by 183,000;

bullet Hispanic employment rose by 131,000.

Oh this is great news..

Zipporah  posted on  2005-12-04   16:58:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Zipporah (#1)

Add in the 100's of thousands of foreign "guest" workers taking high-tech positions at half the normal salary from the bottomless labor pools in India, China, etc., PLUS the offshoring & outsourcing, and it's no wonder so many American citizens are signing up with the Army/Marines/Navy/AirForce.

robin  posted on  2005-12-04   17:02:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: robin (#2)

This is exactly why my pay(and others) at work was cut by over $6.00 an hour, plus my vacation benefits, health benefits, all cut! I'm madder than hell and I have called, emailed, and faxed our representives to let them know that Americans are fed up with this illegal immigration and the outsourcing of our jobs!

nc_girl_speaks_up  posted on  2005-12-04   17:51:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: nc_girl_speaks_up (#3)

most Americans have their pay cut over time through inflation. It is unusual to cut it out-right like that.

There are a series of policies the government has that create very negative trends that cause these things. It was known that this would happen when those policies were enacted. Our politicians don't care. They don't work for us.

Every two years 99% of the congressmen who run for re-election do get re-elected. The Americans very very rarely assert themselves at the ballot box. It is completely normal for the politicians to do things not in our interest.

Red Jones  posted on  2005-12-04   17:59:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#5. To: Red Jones (#4)

The Americans very very rarely assert themselves at the ballot box.

IMHO it doesn't matter if Americans assert themselves at the ballot box or not, the elite have made sure their candidates can't lose. They control the media, which spins it as close race with the incumbent barely winning when in reality the incumbent loses by 20 points or more.

RickyJ  posted on  2005-12-04 18:25:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Red Jones (#4)

Every two years 99% of the congressmen who run for re-election do get re-elected

I've already called my state representitives and congressmen and let them know that I will only vote for candidates who want to keep jobs in AMERICA and those who want illegals deported and our borders closed. I do not like Bush's worker visa program, it's another term for "amnesty"!

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