NumbersUSA points out an interesting statistic.
So, you are excited that some jobs were created in July! Well, guess what — there are more foreign work permits issued each month then there are jobs created.
And, something that has never made sense to me is why the federal refugee contractors who find it harder and harder to find jobs for refugees never speak up—-against the special work permits for immigrants or the job losses to refugees because illegal immigrants take those jobs!
From NumbersUSA (emphasis mine):
While the nation has been transfixed by the recent debt ceiling debate, 22 million Americans have continued their search for a full-time job. Now that a compromise on the debt ceiling has been reached, Members of both parties are promising to get back to work creating jobs. Yet their promises are hard to believe considering both parties have refused to act on one of the most pressing job-related issues — lowering annual immigration levels.
A report in today’s Wall Street Journal brings some hope to the jobs market — 114,000 private sector jobs unofficially created in July — but if true, that number still falls short of the number of jobs needed for the 125,000 work permits issued to foreign workers each month by the federal government.