Unemployment numbers probably don’t mean much anymore.
I don’t think the Gov counts illegal immigrant workers in these figures. And what we have right now is a crackdown on illegals, lowering their presence in the workplace. These jobs are being taken by Americans, thus lowering the Gov figures.
All pulled out of my hat but:
30+ million illegals, most working
300+ million citizens, about half working
So the illegals may have been as much as 15-20% of the workforce.
All this muddies up the unemployment numbers so much they are worthless.
I don't think so. Of course that's the idea, but it doesn't seem to working out that way; otherwise the figures would be showing a gain in jobs, not a loss. By and large, it seems that the jobs vacated by illegals aren't being taken by anybody; they're just disappearing.