From the Atlanta Business Chronicle: ARC reported the 10-county region lost 108,074 jobs between 2006 and 2009. That’s a decline of 5.4 percent, ARC said. The job losses were highest in the core 10 counties, where Fulton and Gwinnett produced more than half of all job losses. Fulton lost 29,914 jobs (-4.1 percent), while Gwinnett [...]
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Immigration Continues Unchecked, Despite Bleak Job Market
Posted by BobG on February 8th, 2009
This year, the U.S. government will issue 744,531 permanent green cards to working-age adults and 912,735 new employment authorization documents to temporary foreign workers. That’s 138,000 immigrants who will be imported into the U.S. legally this year! While many of those immigrants will be battling with unemployed Americans for a dwindling number of jobs, a [...]
