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Craig Harrington: Right-Wing Media Push Misleading Study Claiming All Job Growth Has Gone To Immigrants

Conservative media outlets amplified a misleading study from the anti-immigrant Center for Immigration Studies, which claimed that "all net employment growth has gone to immigrants" between November 2007 and November 2014. But data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that job growth among the native-born has far outpaced job growth among immigrants during the economic recovery.Right-Wing Media Promote CIS Claim That Job Growth Has Gone To Immigrants CIS Study Claims "All Net Employment Growth Has Gone To Immigrants." A December 2014 study from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) claimed that data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed that "all net employment growth has gone to immigrants" since November 2007: Yet data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on its website (see Table A-7) show that all of the net gain in employment since 2007 has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal), also referred to as the foreign-born.

 

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