Sometime back an anonymous user on Twitter told me that Employed and Unemployed combined equals the total nonfarm payroll number that is issued each month when they release the unemployment numbers.
That may be true and I’m curious if anybody from the Department of Labor or Bureau of Labor Statistics is reading this, could you confirm or deny that.
On 15 November 2024 the Institute for Sound Public Policy released an email stating that “since the pandemic most employment growth has gone to immigrants. ” with a link.
As most of you know, I have been fighting the statement that all jobs have gone to immigrants since 2019 that I first noticed at Zero Hedge.
I track this data monthly and I knew that was inaccurate, so I clicked on the link and found this.
https://cis.org/Camarota/Most-Employment-Growth-Pandemic-Has-Gone-Immigrants
So I checked their data against mine and sure enough, it was accurate for May 2020 and I started to stop there.
But I decided to run the data for all months and as you will see here, it is a good thing that I did as their data was inaccurate for May 2021, May 2022, May 2023 and May 2024.
The columns in yellow should match the numbers they have on their chart.
The first set does, but the rest don’t.
Now I’m wondering if I might have fat fingered something, so I go back to the source and pull that data.
Here is the Foreign Born Employed Data.
Here is the Native Born Employed Data.
Folks, my data is accurate, but as always, I think you should question any data, including mine.
I have to assume they fat fingered something, but I’m sure they will release the true data in the future.
