Astonishing Number of Native-Born Americans are Unemployed

Apparently, not very many people in America are working anymore, for all intents and purposes.

While we keep hearing about lower unemployment from the current administration, there remains a pronounced disconnect between what we are told by the powers that be, and the information on employment in the United States that is gathered by groups not seeking to shill for the government.

The latest prominent study to debunk the myth that your fellow citizens are all back to work is one that was completed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). In a revelation that is startling even to those who suspected it has been the case all along, CIS director of research Steven Camarota announced that the first quarter of 2016 saw almost 48.5 million native-born Americans between ages 16 and 65���working age, in other words���not on the job.

Said another way, nearly 30 percent of native-born Americans between 16 and 65 were out of work during Q1 2016.

The picture is grimmer still for natives without a bachelor���s degree. The first quarter of 2016 saw 35 percent of those folks out of work.

While the results of Camarota���s effort is obviously revealing with respect to the state of the general economy, it also has profound implications for immigration interests. As Camarota rhetorically asks in his report, ���The key policy question facing the country with regard to immigration is: Does it make sense to continue to admit a million new permanent immigrants each year, along with several hundred thousand guest workers, given the enormous pool of working-age people not working?���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large