Interesting analysis.
Do you want to see a perfect example of propaganda media?
Here’s the headline from CNBC:
“Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation rate falls to lowest in 50 years, outside of Covid era”
Sounds really bleak, doesn’t it?
Sounds like the Trump economy is doing really bad, right?
Here’s more propaganda.
“•June’s drop in the unemployment rate was because of an exodus of workers from the labor force.
•The labor force participation rate, which measures the working-age population of those either employed or looking for a job, fell to 61.5%, the lowest since March 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
•Excluding the Covid-era jobs market, it was the lowest participation rate since June 1976.
•The labor force plummeted by 720,000 in June.”
There was an “exodus” of workers from the labor force.
The propaganda media wants you to believe that there’s no jobs out there and workers are “giving up” looking.
A huge drop in June.
I wonder why?
When you read down near the end of the story, you see some clues that this is really only half the story.
“What really affects me is not so much the unemployment rate,” said Dan North, senior economist for North America at Allianz. “What’s an important development is the participation rate, and this is a big leg down in one month, and over the past year it’s a pretty big leg down.”
Now, what could possibly be driving down the “participation rate” over the last month and year?
They hinted at the answer:
“The drop in participation is sometimes attributed to a shrinking immigrant population and retiring baby boomers and Gen Xers.
However, in June the biggest plunge came from what is defined as “prime age” workers, or those between the ages of 25 and 54.”
A “shrinking immigrant population?”
You don’t say?
Didn’t we just learn that 10,000 illegal immigrants were arrested for deportation, over the last five days alone?
Hasn’t there been a record number of deportations of illegal immigrants over the last year?
And hasn’t there also been a record number of illegal immigrants self-deporting over the last year?
Does anybody think that’s not the main reason, why the “participation rate” has dropped so drastically?
Here’s another clue:
“To be sure, some economists said the June numbers seem out of sort. Specifically, they cited the large decline in leisure and hospitality workers as a sign that the data could be noisy.”
There was a “large decline” in leisure and hospitality?
Why?
(Brave search engine)
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“Undocumented immigrants constitute a significant portion of the U.S. hospitality workforce, estimated at approximately 7.1% to 9% of the sector's total labor force. Data from the American Immigration Council indicates that this group comprises over 1 million workers within the industry, making hospitality the third-largest employer of undocumented labor after construction and agriculture.”
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And do you think the recent ICE raids on businesses in Florida and Alabama, might be encouraging more illegal immigrants to quit looking for jobs in America?
Here’s the proof that it’s illegals no longer “participating.”
“And while the establishment survey, which counts jobs filled, showed growth for the month of 57,000, the survey of households, which counts the actual level of those working, tumbled by 507,000.”
cnbc.com/2026/07/02/job…
So jobs filled is increasing, not decreasing.
It’s just the number of people looking for jobs, that’s massively decreasing, while at the same time, a massive amount of illegals are being deported.
That’s not a coincidence.
More jobs for Americans.
Making America Great Again!
