bad unemployment news for Bush 28.5% of jobs going to noncitizens

[59millionmorons]

Immigrants are filling nearly three out of every 10 new jobs in the rebounding U.S. economy, a development that may dilute the political dividend to President Bush from an election-year recovery, a study to be released today concludes.
The report by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center found that workers who were not U.S. citizens claimed 378,496 jobs out of a net increase of 1.3 million from the first three months of 2003 through the first three months of this year

The share of jobs going to noncitizens -- 28.5% -- was particularly notable because workers who were not U.S. citizens accounted for fewer than 9% of all those holding jobs in the United States.

"The proportion of new jobs captured by noncitizens was ... much larger than their share of overall employment," said the report, prepared by labor economist Rakesh Kochhar. "Thus, the political impact of job gains may be damped by the fact that noncitizens are benefiting disproportionately from the turnaround in the labor market."

Roberto Suro, director of the center, said in an interview that "the turnaround is being fueled to a substantial extent by the demand for immigrant labor. And as a result, a substantial chunk of the new jobs are going to people who are not voters."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-jobs16jun16,1,2087153.story?coll=la-home-nation

[DemoTex]

1. Lucky-duckies.

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[LittleApple81]

2. cheepy duckies. n/t

[On the Road]

3. The Whole IT Department at Verizon is Becoming South Asian

to the point where the cafeteria has markedly changed its menu to offer a lot of completely vegetaran dishes.

[louis c]

4. Like I've been saying

for three months, over and over, every job is not the same. Good jobs have been lost in the first three years, and jobs with low salaries and no benefits are replacing them. In a recent report, the number of Americans without health care has dramatically increased. Salaries have dropped. This is increasing evidence that what the assholes in this administration are doing is reducing the standard of living for the middle class to the benefit of increased profits for the corporations, both here and internationally.