April 4: Mar Jobs Report +228,000 jobs (that's a lot)

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It’s a lot, but it breaks down in unexpected ways.

Total nonfarm … +228,000
Total private … +209,000
__Goods Producing … +12,000
__Manufacturing … +1,000
__Retail Trade … +23,700
__Food and beverage retailers … +20,700

__Couriers and messengers … +15,800 (huh?)

__ Healthcare … +53,600
__Social assistance … +24,200

__ Leisure and hospitality … +43,000

Federal Gov’t … - 4,000
State & Local Gov’t …+23,000

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

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And much to my surprise,
Table A-7, the number of foreign-born workers increased in March.

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https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t07.htm

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You’re digging deep if you’re looking for negative indicators in that report. Good numbers all around, for the most part.

The Couriers thing… That’s an enduring mystery to me. Every month…

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Well, these parts look like a Biden era jobs report
(especially the last one)
__Retail Trade … +23,700
__Food and beverage retailers … +20,700

__ Healthcare … +53,600
__Social assistance … +24,200

__ Leisure and hospitality … +43,000

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And these parts were well, not what I expected

__Goods Producing … +12,000
__Manufacturing … +1,000

Federal Gov’t … - 4,000
State & Local Gov’t …+23,000

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I actually thought FedGov would be a larger decline. Agreed about S/L gov’t - That’s a head scratcher too.

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those are the only people who want work.

American born not so much,
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unsure why you are surprised?

Allan

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Foreign born?

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and now trump owns it for better or worse.

Allan

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That is the term BLS uses and has used for decades.

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Yah what’s the status? :blush:

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They don’t say.

It is not likely that under Joe Biden a bazillion mail order brides came over. Or maybe the rest of the world ran out of doctors with no kids so 5 million doctors-with-kids suddenly came over here.

Of course I can’t prove that.

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You missed me in the last thread saying may be you were right after the last report. So i am wondering if the trend of dropping foreign born getting jobs continued.

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Not born in the US

Naturalized citizens, green card/visa holders, illegals

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Yep i know. I was just asking for an update :blush:

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Foreign-born employed actually rose last month.

I can guess at an explanation, but . . . that’s a solid fact, why sully it with guesses?

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What’s your guess

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Interesting it’s still going up despite two months of deportations.

:sunglasses:

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Just guesses. I really am not sure:

  • has done a much better job of rounding up unemployed illegals than employed illegals.
  • employers are now hiring legal foreigners that they are not afraid to report on a BLS survey. EX: in NYC and on farms it is really really easy to contact a service and get a legal foreign worker to replace an illegal one.

but I dunno. I’m just spit-balling here

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My guess is that they (the administration) has a m/l reasonable set of priorities and it is not working out.
Their priorities

  • First give due process to known criminals and deport them.
    (Thinking: The media is bad, but its not so bad they would lie about this, right?)

New Priority should be:

  • Large scale arrest and prosecution of the lying criminals who hire illegals
    (lock them up and seize their assets)
  • Rounding up and throwing out phony asylum seekers
  • Attracting honest non-criminal types via expansion and normalization of H2-A visas, J-1 visas etc…