{"id":24594,"date":"2014-12-19T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24594"},"modified":"2014-12-19T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T23:30:10","slug":"who-is-working-and-who-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24594","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Working And Who Is Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The N<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/395057\/report-all-net-jobs-growth-2007-has-gone-immigrants-ryan-lovelace\" target=\"_blank\">ational Review Online<\/a> posted an article today about job growth since the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Recession\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Recession\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">recession<\/a> began in December 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>From November 2007 through November 2014, the number of employed <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Natural-born-citizen clause\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural-born-citizen_clause\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">native-born Americans<\/a> has decreased more than 1.45 million, while the number of employed immigrants has risen by more than 2 million (as the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Immigration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/concept\/Immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikinvest\">immigrant<\/a> population grew rapidly, too), according to <a href=\"http:\/\/c8.nrostatic.com\/sites\/default\/files\/BLS%20data.pdf\">data<\/a> compiled by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of Labor\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8925361111,-77.0144277778&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8925361111,-77.0144277778 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20Labor)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Department of Labor<\/a>\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bureau of Labor Statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/bls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cNative employment has still not returned to pre-recession levels, while immigrant employment already exceeds pre-recession levels,\u201d the report says. \u201cFurthermore, even with recent job growth, the number of natives not in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Labor force\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">labor force<\/a> (neither working nor looking for work) continues to increase.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This might be something to consider when debating <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> amnesty memo. I suspect there are two main reasons for this statistic&#8211;first of all immigrants (legal or illegal) may be willing to work for lower wages, and secondly, many immigrants may have a stronger work ethic than many Americans. Either way, this does not bode well for America&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Review Online posted an article today about job growth since the recession began in December 2007. The article reports: From November 2007 through November 2014, the number of employed native-born Americans has decreased more than 1.45 million, while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24594\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1659,8538,7506,1448],"class_list":["post-24594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bureau-of-labor-statistics","tag-immigrants","tag-job-growth","tag-labor-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24595,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24594\/revisions\/24595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}