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11. The labor force was basically flat last year (+42k since feb '25), due to kicking immigrants out.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:25 PM

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People occasionally post things like "We need 150k jobs a month to break even due to population growth." I don't think that's been true since the 90s and the actual number for this past year is 3.5k jobs per month.

It's predictable: you kick out immigrants when we have full employment and you got no job growth and actual job losses for people who's jobs depended on the work those immigrants were doing. And that's before you get into the harmful effect of tariffs damaging business creation and expansion.

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