Originally posted by vivify Apparently for the worse.
During that era, we produced more jobs than we could fill. That isn't the case anymore, and unemployed Americans have to compete for jobs with immigrants.
Originally posted by normbenign During that era, we produced more jobs than we could fill. That isn't the case anymore, and unemployed Americans have to compete for jobs with immigrants.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
As of four days ago, the unemployment rate is only 4.9 percent. This is lower than the unemployment rate of "that era" when Reagan and Bush were presidents.
Immigration ONCE AGAIN becomes a big story...in a year that ends in 6. But don't worry...in ten years, we'll bring you part II of this story...and we'll update you on how what we did [then]...didn't work either.