{"id":820,"date":"2007-06-21T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2007-06-21T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T20:55:03","slug":"press-release-center-for-immigration-studies-native-employment-declining-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/press-release-center-for-immigration-studies-native-employment-declining-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS RELEASE: CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES &#8211; Native Employment Declining in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Employment Down Among Natives In Georgia<br \/>\nAs Immigrant Workers Increased, Native Employment Declined in Georgia <\/strong><br \/>\nContact:<br \/>\nSteven Camarota<br \/>\nsac@cis.org<br \/>\n202-466-8185 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (June 20, 2007) \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coxwashington.com\/hp\/content\/reporters\/stories\/2007\/05\/30\/BC_GA_IMMIG_STATES27.html \">Some businesses in Georgia <\/a>argue that they need large numbers of immigrants because there are not enough native-born Americans to fill jobs that require relatively little education. However, state employment data show that as the number of less-educated immigrant workers has grown dramatically, the share of less-educated natives holding a job in Georgia has declined significantly. <\/p>\n<p># Between 2000 and 2006 the share of less-educated native-born adults (ages 18 to 64) in Georgia holding a job declined from 71 percent to 66 percent. (Less-educated is defined as having no education beyond high school.) <\/p>\n<p># Had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steinreport.com\/archives\/2007_06_21.html#010478\">employment rates for natives <\/a>been the same in 2006 as they were in 2000, then 186,000 more less-educated native-born adults and teenagers would have been working. The number of less-educated immigrants holding a job increased by 218,000. <\/p>\n<p># Less-educated blacks in Georgia have seen a somewhat larger decline in employment, from 66 percent holding a job in 2000 to just 60 percent in 2006. <\/p>\n<p># There are nearly 800,000 less-educated native-born adults in Georgia not working. There are likely between 250,000 and 350,000 less-educated illegal aliens holding jobs in the state. <\/p>\n<p># Wages and salary for less-educated adults in Georgia have stagnated. Over the entire six-year time period of the study, real annual wages for less-educated adults grew by just 1 percent. If there was a labor shortage, wages should be rising fast. <\/p>\n<p># Native-born teenagers (15 to 17 years of age) have also seen a dramatic decline in employment. Between 2000 and 2006 the share of native-born teenagers holding a job declined from 22 percent to 11 percent in the state. <\/p>\n<p># There are about 300,000 native-born teenagers not working in Georgia. <\/p>\n<p># Immigrants (legal and illegal) increased their share of all less-educated workers in Georgia, from 7 percent in 2000 to 19 percent by 2006. Other research indicates that at least half of this growth was from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/donors\/solicit.php?http_referer=\/uscode\/html\/uscode08\/usc_sec_08_00001324----000-.html\"> illegal immigrants. <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full release is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cis.org\/articles\/2007\/georgiarelease.html \">available here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employment Down Among Natives In Georgia As Immigrant Workers Increased, Native Employment Declined in Georgia Contact: Steven Camarota sac@cis.org 202-466-8185 WASHINGTON (June 20, 2007) \u2014 Some businesses in Georgia argue that they need large numbers of immigrants because there are not enough native-born Americans to fill jobs that require relatively little education. However, state employment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}