Job openings are never filled in order to justify more H-1B slave labor

Jobless claims may have bottomed: Initial claims higher than a year ago for the third week in a row

And this week first time claims are higher than a year ago in all three categories.

Initial claims for unemployment running ahead of last year at the same time for a second week

There's something we haven't seen much of lately: first time claims for unemployment higher than a year ago, both SA and NSA

Whites are over 77% of the population, but received just 7% of the net new jobs since the Great Recession as of Feb 2019

up net 963,000 in Feb 2019

up net 6,569,000 in Feb 2019

up net 3,023,000 in Feb 2019

up net 2,637,000 in Feb 2019

Hispanics took 50% of the net new jobs.

I 100% sympathize with this technically true observation, but at least 17 million of these 54 million not in labor force are in high school and college!

It would be SO much better for high schoolers and collegians if there were ZERO illegal and legal immigrants taking the jobs they need to finance their educations, but when I think labor force, I don't think people 16-24 even though they contribute a lot to the economy.

Go to school. Stay in school. Then work like hell, SAVE, INVEST, and enjoy the American dream while voting for immigration restrictionists.

People 55-64 forced out of the labor force since 2000 is up 49.5%, more than any other age demo

In 2018 over 37 million people age 25-64 were not in the labor force.

Not only did they have no jobs, they were not even counted as unemployed because they were not counted as part of the labor force either.

They literally do not count.

Here are the average millions in 2018 by age tranche who are not in the labor force:

25-34:   7.81 million

35-44:   6.95 million

45-54:   7.93 million

55-64: 14.76 million

65+:     41.25 million.

Approximately 32.2 million of these people do not yet qualify for Social Security, including 9.5 million of whom are 55-61.

And if you want to know why young people are living in their parents' basements in their 20s, you have your answer: Business has not hired the young and inexperienced and has fired the old and higher paid.

Nothing personal, right? Just business.

Effing libertarians.

For people who ought to be working, the rate of dropping out has been twice as high as the rate of joining in since 2000

And how can there be a labor shortage when population is increasing at a rate faster than assimilation to working?

Shut the borders! Turn off the immigration spigot!

The m/o of business since the Great Recession has been not to hire the young and to fire the old

It's a lie that we need a million legal immigrants a year when the rate of job growth has been slashed by 70%

Traitors to the middle class: Kamala Harris, Mike Lee, Zoe Lofgren, Ken Buck, and of course the Koch Bros.

Billionaire Kochs Back GOP/Dem Plan to Outsource Middle Class American Jobs:

A plan known as the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act introduced in the Senate by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), as well as Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), would eliminate the U.S. country caps in the legal immigration system that would fast track outsourcing of white-collar American jobs to mostly Indian and Chinese nationals imported to the country by businesses, outsourcing firms, and multinational corporations.

Attention jobless communist journalists, Apple has a message just for you: Learn to code

MLK Jr Day 2019: Record 12.6 million blacks not in labor force

Cry me a shutdown river: Average federal salary was $84,913 in 2017, 76% more than the average W-2 employee at $48,251.57

Office of Personnel Management here, Social Security here.