Re: Housing Slump Takes a Toll on Illegal Immigrants (was Max’s house)
On Aug 12, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
That is because many construction workers were undocumented immigrants who do not show up in statistics.
There’s something to this, but: 1) they were counted in the expansion
(up 30% from 2001-2005, and now off only 4% from the peak), and 2)
they show up in part in the survey of employers, who are simply asked
how many jobs they have, not who fills them.
Doug