That chart is a good depiction of what is/isn’t happening with job creation. It flys in the face of many of the smug posters here talking referencing lazy kids living in mom’s basement.
All of the shale fracking companies in this area are desperate for additional field help. Pay is rather good. And they will train.
Problem is too few young men are willing to take them up on the offer because it’s REAL WORK. Physical labor, outdoors in the rain and the cold.
Kids seem to think they should get a degree and then have a divine right to some overpaid desk job where they sit there and put out tweets all day.
Of the 472 civilian occupations, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans still comprise 46 percent of workers even in these occupations.
They also ignore the fact that immigrants, legal and illegal, use welfare programs to a greater extent than the native-born.
