The majority of the increase in jobs under the Biden-Harris administration, according to Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni, went to “foreign-born workers,” according to Breitbart News on Saturday.
When the unemployment rate surged to 4.3 percent and companies added 114,000 people to their payrolls in July—a notable departure from economists’ projected 180,000 jobs—Antoni talked with Breitbart News Saturday presenter Matthew Boyle.
About the dire status of the economy under the Biden-Harris administration, Antoni has collated statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This includes the fact that the majority of the recent employment growth has gone to foreign-born workers, including illegal aliens.
He clarified, saying, “We’ve lost 1.2 million jobs for Americans,” to Breitbart News on Saturday. Thus, foreign-born workers accounted for all of the employment growth, or 1.3 million. There are actually fewer native-born Americans working now than there were five years ago, prior to the epidemic, which is astounding.
“That basically means that the job increase will go to foreign-born individuals,” Antoni explained.
“The American job market becomes a type of temporary agency for foreigners, and Americans be darned,” he continued.
Additionally, a large portion of the “net job growth over the previous year has been part-time work,” according to Antoni.
Furthermore, according to Antoni, the government or taxpayers funded more than half of the new jobs created in the previous year.
“The issue here is that, in order to acquire enough money to finance those private sector jobs, you need more people to pay into the system or pay taxes,” he says.
Additionally, Antoni claims that the unemployment rate is “artificially low” because the coronavirus outbreak has caused millions of people to stop looking for work, removing their numbers from the statistics.
He said that the “unemployment rate is between 6.9 and 8.2 percent” when taking into account the millions of workers who have given up seeking work as a result of the pandemic.
The rate would be “far into recession territory,” he continued.
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