Posted on 08/18/2023 6:06:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
I usually ignore the "non-participation" side of those figures. The civilian labor force in the U.S. is defined far too broadly -- because it is based only on a minimum age and factors such as imprisonment and institutionalization.
The biggest contributor to the declining labor force participation rate is RETIREMENT.
Someone who is 85 years old, doesn't live in a nursing home, and has been retired for 20+ years is considered a "non-working labor force participant" -- which is ludicrous.
The labor force participation rate indicates the percentage of all people of working age who are employed or are actively seeking work.
In conjunction with the unemployment numbers, it can offer some perspective into the state of the economy.
Starting in 2013, the U.S. labor force participation rate held steady at around 63% until the COVID-19 pandemic struck. It was 62.6% as of July 2023.
The rate varies over time based on social, demographic, and economic trends.
Global labor force participation has shown a steady decline since 1990.
Bringing into the US totally ignorant people who know nothing but how to use a cell phone and wait for the gov’t to hand o ut money is not the way to build a workforce unless you need shovel operators.
Is the government still paying people not to work? Is it racist to expect the low skilled people already here to chip in? How long before the “newcomers” decide they want on the gravy train like the layabouts we already have? This has nothing to do with labor or jobs, but everything to do with importing people who will accept communism like those idiots south of the border that somehow keep it going time after time. Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, and counting. The School of the Americas has done its job.
I’m sure the labor shortage has nothing to do with 60+ million aborted babies over several decades.
There’s a second problem: Employers don’t want to pay a reasonable wage.
I had an opportunity show up in my inbox: 40 miles from home, at $13 per hour max on a 1099.
Let’s say you run a business:
You have built your reputation & business for over 40 years (family).
You do heating & Air Conditioning sales/ installation/ repair/ maintenance. YOU have a STELLAR reputation====
ARE YOU SERIOUSLY GOING TO HIRE:
A person you know ZERO about——
A person who DOES NOT SPEAK FLUENT ENGLISH / WRITE FLUENT, LEGIBLE ENGLISH / CAN READ FLUENT ENGLISH.
A PERSON WHO WILL BE IN PEOPLE’S HOMES & YOU KNOW ZERO ABOUT THEIR BACKGROUND.
A PERSON WHO HAS NO SKILLS OR ATTITUDE ABOUT DAILY GROOMING, ETC.
A PERSON WHO CANNOT PROVE ANY TECHNICAL SKILLS NEEDED FOR THE JOB.
A PERSON WHO HAS NO WAY TO PROVE THEIR ID OR LACK OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND.
A PERSON WHO CANNOT PROVIDE YOUR COMPANY WITH A DRIVING RECORD SO YOU CAN HAVE THEM DRIVING ONE OF YOUR SERVICE VEHICLES.
THIS IS NUTS
Will any ‘immigrants’ not also need goods and services increasing the demand for labor?
If a population of X needs the productive output of more than X people then there is a structural problem not a quantity problem.
It’s like the person who thinks he’s stepping on the brake but is actually stepping on the gas. As the car goes faster and faster he presses harder and harder until he jumps the curb and rams into the strip mall.
B.S. This is a narrative pushed by the government supported by the Chamber of Commerce crowd (in both parties) in order to bring in more cheap labor. We have plenty of people to work but we excuse them from doing so and instead keep them uneducated and give them victim-hood status. They also want to bring in people who are more likely to vote as directed.
The fact is that many of the current citizens are getting too “uppity” so our government dictators want to bring in a new citizenry that is more easily controlled. They can count on the reliable immigration “scholars” to publish articles and charts to support their position.
Uneducated, illiterate, non-English speaking Guatemalans are not going to fix the harm COVID penalties have done to the workforce of doctors, scientists, pilots, etc.
>> Booschmidt! There is a labor shortage only because the jackasses in this country don’t want to work anymore after the RATs’ pandemic. <<
There is no labor shortage of any kind, period. Your local restauranteur has decided that his waitresses should work twice as hard for no more pay, when people are feeling too much economic pain to tip well. Given the doubling of menu prices, the solution should be very obvious.
Here in York, PA, there are big crowds of illegal aliens criminal at both Lowe’s and Home Depot, trying to get work in landscaping, home yard work, home & commercial construction etc. LOTS of them, every day.
Angry driver attacks Ferguson protester blockading I-5 highway
Notice an unmistakable trend there: Useless, unemployable, American-born college-educated losers blocking traffic and preventing working-class people of all races (including many immigrants from Asia Latin America) from going to work.
THE REAL ANSWER is to get back to REAL SCHOOLS & TEACHING useful, employable skills.
Close the borders for the next 50-100 years, expel the invaders, and assimilate the rest. Period.
“Labor shortage” is a dog whistle for ‘American wages are still too high’.
When I lived in So Calif-—the NEW local Home Depot had a crowded parking lot....
BUT with space to park a premium-—HD decided to erect a tent “shelter” for the ILLEGALS who were harassing customers in the parking lot. THIS “Shelter” took up 8 parking spaces-—in the middle of the parking lot.
I am female, and I wasn’t at all pleased with feeling so vulnerable when surrounded with all the young men pushing & shoving, trying to find day work.
The attitude at HD still keeps me from shopping there-—
They have become part of the problem-—not part of the solution.
The story I liked was The Little Red Hen....
Little Red Hen finds some wheat seeds
She asks “Who will help me sow these seeds ?”
Every other animal in the farm yard are too too tired, too busy, too lazy, its beneath their pay grade, not interested etc
LRH says “OK my children and I will sow these seeds”
And so they do
The seeds grow and the wheat needs watering
LRH asks “Who will help me water the wheat ?”
Again the other animals have excuses
and again LRH says “OK my children and I will water the wheat”
And so they do
The wheat grows tall and is ready for harvest
LRH asks “Who will help me harvest the wheat ?”
And again the animals have excuses
LRH says “Ok my children and I will harvest the wheat.
And so they do
Now the wheat needs threshing/milling
LRH asks “Who will help me take the wheat to the miller ?”
And again the other animals have excuses
LRH says “OK my children and I will take the wheat to the miller”
And so they do
The miller grinds the wheat into flour
LRH asks “Who will help me carry the bags of flour to my house ?”
And yet again the other animals have excuses.
LRH says “OK my children and I will take the bags of flour home”
LRH bakes beautiful loaves of bread and as the lovely smell drifts through her open windows the other animals gather outside her door, drooling.
LHR comes out and asks “Who will help me eat the loaves of bread ?”
“Me, me me” say the other animals grinning expectantly.
LRH says, “No, you wont. You were too tired, busy, lazy, ill, uninterested to help me sow the seeds, water the wheat, harvest the wheat, carry the wheat the miller, carry the flour to my house, and bake the loaves of bread. My children and I did all that work, alone. Since you are too tired, busy, lazy, uninterested in working, then you are too tired, busy, lazy, uninterested in eating. My children and I did all the work. So my children and I will eat the loaves of bread.”
And the LRH locked her door and shut and locked her windows and she and her children ate the delicious loaves of bread.
He who will not work, will not eat, either. 2 Thessalonians 3:10
“This followed a poll showing that four out of five Americans support bipartisan cooperation on immigration that would address labor shortages and inflation.”
In case you missed it, that’s utter bullshit.
“The US is facing a labor shortage”
Give a specific example of an employer by name and address and job opening by requirement and compensation.
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