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2 posted on
04/15/2007 2:30:47 PM PDT by
Ultra Sonic 007
(Why vote for Duncan Hunter in 2008? Look at my profile.)
To: Ultra Sonic 007
Aren’t the unemployment figures calculated using new applications for unemployment benefits? Are illegal aliens allowed to collect unemployment? I don’t know for sure, so please don’t flame me if I’m wrong.
3 posted on
04/15/2007 2:32:47 PM PDT by
JustaDumbBlonde
(America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
To: Ultra Sonic 007
All I know is that my state has a 7% unemployment rate (8% in my county) yet there’s a spanish language “come to Michigan” campaign being run by some business and farming groups.
A couple of weeks ago I read a story posted here about some 80 illegals found in a Phoenix house after one of the illegals called a relative in Michigan because the coyotes wanted more money. The fact that they called a relative in Michigan tells me that they were headed this way.
4 posted on
04/15/2007 2:37:46 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: Ultra Sonic 007
The illegal apologists always use the unemployment rate to excuse our insane attitude toward illegals. The fact is, "underemployed" is a better measure. If you have a job as a roofer, you have a job (or, a "yob" as your illegal counterparts would call it), statistically. However, because of wage depression, you cannot work 40 hours a week at that job, so you pick up other jobs to make do. It's a scam by the apologists.
6 posted on
04/15/2007 2:41:00 PM PDT by
SJSAMPLE
To: Ultra Sonic 007
Yes illegal immigrants are included in any unemployment calculation because the govt doesn’t make a distinction to status. I hear immigrants are a 4.5-6 percentage points factor in unemployment. Remove immigrants and actual figure is something like 8-10% unemployment.
12 posted on
04/15/2007 3:27:55 PM PDT by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
To: Ultra Sonic 007
In California, one applies for UI by telephone. Press 2 for Spanish and you will get to speak to a live operator sooner and the service is better.
13 posted on
04/15/2007 3:38:34 PM PDT by
La Enchiladita
(Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us, and grant us Your peace.)
To: Ultra Sonic 007
My education was as a labor economics, and illegals are not usually counted as part of the statistics surrounding unemployment. One of the things I've always found interesting is how much demand for illegal workers are created by high minimum wages, intrusive regulation, and unions.
If a builder wants to save money he could just as easily pay Americans cash to work "under the table" but since illegals are here (by definition) illegally, they are less likely to report labor law violations.
In effect they become part of the black market economy, and that always grows fastest in a socialist environment.
15 posted on
04/15/2007 3:55:54 PM PDT by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
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