According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), more than 1 million fewer native-born Americans are employed now than at this time last year.
The number of foreign-born workers employed rose by approximately 400,000 year-over-year in November, while 1,094,000 fewer native-born workers were employed during the same period, BLS data reveals. A significant part of this disparity comes from a decrease of 215,000 native-born Americans employed from October to November.
“Biden’s economic legacy, besides 40-year-high inflation and record debt, could perhaps best be described as transforming the American labor market into a temp agency for foreign workers and government bureaucrats,” said E.J. Antoni, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “He [Biden] has left behind blue-collar America to import new blue voters.”
In November, the U.S. economy added 227,000 nonfarm payroll jobs, surpassing economist predictions of 214,000. However, the unemployment rate climbed to 4.2%, up from 4.1% in October.
Job growth in October was significantly tied to government spending, with 33,000 jobs added in the government sector and 54,000 jobs added in healthcare. In 2022, government sources accounted for over 45% of healthcare spending, according to the Congressional Research Service.
“Government spending has played a large role in much of the economic growth seen over the past few years,” said Peter Earle, a senior economist at the American Institute for Economic Research, in an earlier interview with the DCNF. “The problem with that, of course, is that government spending is redistribution: taxing certain citizens or floating more trillions of dollars in debt to send those dollars to other citizens. It’s not innovative entrepreneurship or other productive commercial undertakings.”
Native-born employment has still not returned to its pre-pandemic trend and remains 619,000 below that level. In contrast, foreign-born employment is at its pre-pandemic growth trend and has accounted for all net job growth over the last five years.
Real wages in the third quarter of 2024 remain below levels seen in the first quarter of 2021, when President Joe Biden took office. During this time, prices have risen by over 20%, with inflation climbing from 1.4% at the end of former President Donald Trump’s administration to approximately 9% by June 2022.
“The job market remains strong, as has been the case for most of the Biden-Harris Administration,” the White House stated in a press release on Friday following the release of the November jobs report.
The Biden-Harris administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
