Trump Admin Touts 'Native Born' Job Gains In Scramble To Spin Bad Jobs Report
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There may be fewer foreign-born workers, but the anti-immigrant talking point relies on dubious data.
WASHINGTON – Reeling from a jobs report showing the first monthly decline in employment since 2020, the Donald Trump administration scrambled Friday to find something good about the latest numbers.
Though overall job growth may be weak, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer took solace in the hope that immigrants may have missed out entirely.
“All job growth this year has been in the private sector among native-born Americans,” Chavez-Deremer said in a statement.
The unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 4.3% in August, the department said Friday, as employers added a weaker-than-expected 22,000 jobs. Revisions to the prior two months showed employers actually cut 13,000 jobs in June, the first monthly job loss since the coronavirus pandemic in April 2020.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that as of August, there were 132.4 million native-born workers, up from 130.5 million in January, while foreign-born employment declined from 31.7 million to 30.8 million.
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