In December 2007 the number of foreign-born workers was 22,810,000. By April 2015, the number had increased to 24,819,000 or a net job growth of more than 2 million. For native-born workers that number in December 2007 was 123,524,000 by April of this year the number of employed native-born Americans was 123,769,000 or a net job growth of 245,000.
A record number of women were not in the labor force in April, according to numbers released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last month, the number of women not in the workforce increased from the previous record of 56,131,000, registered in March, to a new record of 56,167,000.
For the second month in a row, the number of people not in the workforce hit another record high in April, according to jobs data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just published the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report for February. The job openings percent for the workforce hit a 14 year high of 5.1 million, while the layoffs and discharges percentage stayed at a historic low. But despite the job availability rate more than doubling since 2009, the hiring rate only grew by 30 percent in the same period. Adjusted for population growth, the American economy is still down by 5.9 million jobs.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ March job’s data released Friday — as in previous months — again shows that net employment growth in the U.S. since the beginning of the recession has gone to foreign-born workers. From the beginning of the
They say “everything is bigger in Texas,” but Texas’ welfare rolls are shrinking, and presidential hopeful and former Governor Rick Perry (R) deserves a lot of the credit.
When Perry first became governor of Texas in 2000, the number of people enrolled in the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was well over 300,000. Since then, the number has declined to below 80,000, and a new study says key policy changes help explain why.
A Muslim woman, who claims she was passed over for a job because she wore a head scarf, appears set to win her case of discrimination brought before the U.S. Supreme Court, reports say.
“I’ve been movin’ across the country a lot now lately,” former Texas Governor and potential 2016 Presidential hopeful Rick Perry said on Saturday. He was speaking to attendees of the Unite IE Conference during a trip visiting multiple southern California locations.
A State Department spokesperson hints the military won’t be able to defeat ISIS, but that a jobs program might.
Usually a worker’s first day on a new job is full of wonder and excitement, sometimes those first days end up a disappointment. But one woman didn’t even get to her first day after sending an offensive tweet about her new job that got her fired before she even started.
Friday on Fox New Channel, correspondent William La Jeunesse reported on Southern California Edison replacing middle class American workers with foreigners on H-1B Visas. La Jeunesse reported, “The president talks a lot about protecting the middle class yet 400 American workers
Southern California Edison (SCE) announced a “transition effort” that will dump 500 employees and replace them presumably cheaper H-1B visa holders imported from India. Many laid-off employees are complaining that in a demoralizing betrayal, some laid-off workers are being assigned to train their India replacements on how to do their jobs.
The much touted “unemployment rate” is a false measure of prosperity. Especially since those on the left seem to be targeting, rather than building up, the Middle Class.
Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO at Gallup, has acknowledged the dirty little secret that the Obama administration and their media lapdogs assiduously attempt to hide: the official unemployment rate reported by the U.S. Department of Labor does not accurately reflect the grim reality of American unemployment.
Despite President Obama’s happy talk, it is clear that America’s recovery from recession isn’t going as well as it needs to.
The world’s largest farm equipment company, Deere & Co, announced on Friday it plans to lay off at least 865 Iowa workers and another 45 of its Illinois employees.
In a wide-ranging interview with AARP Magazine, Bob Dylan offered his thoughts on his new album of Frank Sinatra covers, happiness, and the state of industry in America.
A new study commissioned by Facebook claims the social media giant created 4.5 million jobs and added $227 billion in global economic impact.
AUSTIN, Texas — In a joint session of the Texas Legislature Thursday afternoon, Texas Governor Rick Perry delivered what was not only his final official speech as Governor, but laid out the blueprint for his expected presidential campaign. As predicted, Perry prominently featured
In a stunning Tuesday report, Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton revealed that “for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is explaining what he thinks the Republican Party position on immigration should be in a 25-page document delivered to all Republican members of Congress and all their key staffers on Capitol Hill. “‘Immigration reform’ may be the single most abused phrase in the English language. It has become a legislative honorific almost exclusively reserved for proposals which benefit everyone but actual American citizens,” Sessions writes in the introduction.
A record 92,898,000 Americans 16 years and older did not participate in the labor force last month, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the level of labor force participation declined — due not only to potentially discouraged workers but also baby boomers hitting retirement age — the BLS reported Friday that in December the unemployment rate declined to 5.6 percent and payroll jobs increased by 252,000.
An analysis by the Wall Street Journal finds that the number of private business owners under the age of 30 has hit a 24-year-low.
Representative Rodney Davis (R-IL) touted Republican jobs bills, especially the “Hire More Heroes Act” during the GOP’s Weekly Address on Saturday. Transcript as Follows: “Happy New Year, everyone. I’m Congressman Rodney Davis from the great state of Illinois. I’m honored
