Don’t trust my calculations?
Good, there is always a chance that I could have fat fingered something, but I don’t think I did.
This is how you calculate it yourself.
Get the total nonfarm payroll data by clicking on the following link:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS
Get the December total for each year you want to verify for job gains.
Subtract the previous December from the current December to get the job gain, and repeat for however many years you want to calculate.
Now lets get the high school graduates.
You can find that data by clicking on the following link:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_219.10.asp
To come up with the December total, I used the fall totals.
Now subtract the high school graduates from the job gains total.
This will tell you if we have enough jobs for our high school graduates, or anybody else.
If you want to calculate the nonimmigrant visas issued totals, you can do that by clicking on the following link:
You are looking for these links:
Nonimmigrant Visas by Individual Class of Admission (e.g. A1, A2, etc.)*
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