For months, President Donald Trump or members of his administration have used federal data showing a large increase in ...

Employment for native-born Americans fell by 183,000 from the fourth quarter of 2019 to the fourth quarter of 2023. The number of foreign-born workers rose by almost 2.9 million. However, that period ...

It’s not just administration cheerleaders: Respected economists on the center-left and center-right have also charted and commented on these trends in native-born and foreign-born employment. And no ...

There are so many absurdities coming out of the Trump administration on the economy that it’s hard to keep up. But one recurring theme with a solid basis in a misunderstanding of statistics is the ...

During a recent campaign rally, former President Donald Trump amplified a growing argument among some Republicans that foreigners are taking jobs away from native-born Americans. On March 9 in Rome, ...

The Trump administration has railed against government data, casting doubt on monthly jobs figures and calling for an overhaul of GDP calculations. But there’s one number White House officials are ...

Echoing a Republican talking point, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, said all jobs created during the Biden administration have gone to foreign-born workers and that illegal immigration was leading to the ...

The number of "jobs that disappeared" is less than a half million for February. It’s common for the metric Trump used to show a large decline in jobs during the year’s first two months, because it is ...

Something remarkable has been going on lately with the population estimates maintained by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. They show a decline of 1.9 million in the foreign-born working-age ...

I can’t believe we have to debate some things, but with Trump you never know how ridiculous the discussion can get. The Washington Post tells us that the Trump administration is boasting about the ...

The claim: Echoing a Republican talking point, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, claimed that all jobs created during the Biden administration have gone to foreign-born workers and that illegal immigration was ...