From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Wednesday 1FEB2012 8 a.m. EST


Did you see video of Jennifer directly challenging Pres. Obama on why he continues to bring in foreign workers while her husband can't find a job?

She was polite. She was confident. She was firm. SHE WAS RIGHT!

ACTION No. 1 -- FAX THE PRESIDENT: Tell him you saw the exchange and want him to stop filling U.S. higher skilled jobs with foreign workers while so many qualified Americans are unemployed. It's free to send this fax through our internet system.

CLICK HERE: http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=13725

ACTION No. 2 -- WATCH VIDEO of Jennifer challenging Pres. Obama on his claim that businesses just can't find Americans to fill U.S. engineering jobs.



ACTION No. 3 -- PHONE THE WHITE HOUSE and flood that switchboard with calls of outrage that Pres. Obama is getting his information about worker shortages from big business and not paying any attention to the cries of unemployed Americans.

CLICK HERE: for your Phone Action Note with phone number and talking points: http://www.numbersusa.com/phones?ID=13728

I think Pres. Obama handles himself well in this interview even as he is shocked to find that Jennifer's husband seems to be precisely the kind of engineer that the President's advisors have told him the country can't find among its own citizens.

But the President seems totally unaware of the unemployment data that his own Administration has gathered.

The most recent American Community Survey by the federal government found:

about 140,000 Americans in the architecture-engineer category can't find a job of any kind.

about 150,000 Americans whose last job was in computer and math occupations can't find a job of any kind. Of those, 49,000 are programmers and developers.

Those are the official "U-3" unemployment numbers. The official "U-6" numbers are often called the "real unemployment" and generally run nearly double the "U-3" unemployment rates.

That would mean that we have more than 500,000 Americans who are in the engineering/architect/computer fields whose last job was in those occupations AND who either can't find a job of any kind (U-3) or have been forced into part-time work. This number does not even include all of those who have given up on their occupations and taken lower-skill, lower-pay jobs in other occupations.

Nonetheless, Pres. Obama and many congressional Republican leaders continue to advocate for increasing the importation of foreign workers in those fields.

I hope you won't hesitate to let the White House know how you feel about Jennifer's question.



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