NATIONAL DATA: Biden Goes Full Merkel, Half New Jobs Go To Immigrants, Real Wages Fall

Article author: 
Peter Brimelow with research by Edwin S. Rubenstein
Article publisher: 
VDARE
Article date: 
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Article category: 
National Issues
Medium
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As usual, the Regime Media put a positive spin on the May Jobs Report released last Friday [WATCH: Biden hails ‘historically robust’ May jobs report as hiring remains strong, PBS, June 3, 2022] although the 390,000 net jobs growth reported by the widely cited survey of Employers was actually the first sub-400,000 month in a year. Also as usual, there was absolutely no Ruling Class mention of the immigration dimension: immigrants (legal and illegal, government data does not distinguish) apparently took almost half—some 46%—of these new jobs. . . .