All job growth since 2000 has gone to immigrants -- legal and illegal

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/06/emallem_job_growth_since_2000_has_gone_to_immigrants__legal_and_illegal.html


The Center for Immigration Studies has released a report that should be political dynamite. Since the year 2000, legal and illegal immigrants have taken all new jobs, while native-born Americans have suffered a decline in the numbers employed.

Government data show that since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal). This is remarkable given that native-born Americans accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the total working-age population. Though there has been some recovery from the Great Recession, there were still fewer working-age natives holding a job in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000, while the number of immigrants with a job was 5.7 million above the 2000 level.

From the Bureau of Labor and Statistics:  http://www.bls.gov/cps/

(Click on CPS Databases -> Historical "A" tables -> Table A-7 Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted)


January 2009 native born employed: 119,061,000

May 2014 native born employed: 122,421,000

Gain in jobs for native born citizens since January 2009: 3,360,000 jobs


January 2009 foreign born employed: 21,375,000

May 2014 foreign born employed: 23,977,000

Gain in jobs for foreign born citizens since January 2009: 2,602,000 jobs



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