October 13, 2009

National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein

American Worker Displacement Resumes—Case For Immigration Moratorium Strengthens

The story is numbingly familiar: 263,000 jobs lost in September, unemployment at a 26-year high (9.8%), 7.2 million jobs lost since the recession began at the end of 2007.

Dismal, yes, but September’s employment numbers were not catastrophic, and some economists choose to see them as a “temporary setbackâ€