Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-Dimer discussed the weak August job report, the impact of tariffs on the jobs market and the use of AI.
Labor department August job report It has been shown that the number of immigrant workers declined compared to the previous year, while the job increased between American -born workers.
Labor statistics bureau (bLS) Statistics for August have shown that, in the last year, the number of foreign-related workers-one metric that does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants, has declined by 822,000 from August-BLS.
Over that period, the number of employed American-birth workers has increased by 2.76 million.
The unemployment rate for both groups of workers has changed very little in the previous year. Among foreign-born workers, the unemployment rate was 4.4%, which was slightly above 4.3% a year ago, while the unemployment rate for the US-born workers also stood from 4.4% to 4.6% last year.
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Industries such as construction face a more banned labor supply amidst action on illegal immigration. (David L. Ryan / The Boston Globe Getty Image / Getty Image)
Manhattan Institute’s partner Daniel de Martino told Fox Business that this trend is partially due to the slowdown of the US economy Tariff uncertainty And economic expansion ended, although he said that the decline in illegal immigration is a contribution factor.
“The labor force is probably shrinking, just because the domestic-born labor force is on aging,” said Di Martino. “The fact that the border has been closed for several months, which means that there are very few people entering the labor force.
“This is a good thing, however, in the sense that you do not want the labor force to increase Illegal immigrationBut this is a fact that this means that labor supply is very prohibited in illegal immigrant-and-ivory industries, which are like construction, distribution services, restaurants and services. ,
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Di Martino also reported about falling number Foreign people Last year, a pew research center analysis of the census bureau data in the US shrunk the foreign population in the US over a million people, the first decline after the 1960s.
“I think it’s exaggerated,” he said. “Why, because, of course, there is no pure illegal flow since January that we know from boundary data, and there is always some outflow. But I think what can be partially driving can actually reduce survey responses for current population survey by illegal immigrants.”
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David Bear, director of the Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute, told Fox Business, “There have been some things about the increase in employment. Innate populationEspecially since January, and it is actually comfortable on the basis of survey design.
“Every year, the Census Bureau estimates what is the population of America. They do not actually operate the full census every year, but they look at birth and death and immigration and guess that it is likely to be the size of the population every month.
“So, they weigh the survey based on that estimate. And, therefore, what is happening if there is a decrease in immigration, or if the number of immigrants becomes more and more than the census bureau at the beginning of the year, it will automatically show as more American workers.” “This is why these levels are cowardice, as we depend on this indirect estimate of the total population.
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“There is no evidence that employment situation has improved compared to the previous year for the US-born population. If you look at the unemployment rate, which is actually designed to estimate the survey, the unemployment rate for American-birth workers or native birth workers has increased.”
