Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/30/is-americas-jobs-market-nearing-a-cliff

#HackerNews #jobsmarket #employment #crisis #laborforce #economy #analysis

"And especially in North Carolina, when small businesses are 50% of your workforce and also farms and agribusiness are the number one economic driver in your state…. This is just impacting people, again, who don't feel safe to go to work, even if they are U.S. citizens. And it's just it's hit everybody everywhere in every sector."

#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #deportations #economy #food #agriculture #jobs #LaborForce #housing #NorthCarolina
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"What are you doing to the economic life? I've heard reports that in particular construction sites, for example, are empty. People aren't showing up for work."

~ Jennifer Rubin

"They're targeting places like Home Depot and grocery stores and not the places that you would typically find your most violent criminals right now. And I think that it's having an economic impact...."

~ Anderson Clayton

#Trump #immigrants #deportations #economy #food #jobs #LaborForce
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/operation-charlottes-web-anderson

"Trump’s tariffs are raising the price of material inputs and his deportations labor inputs, jacking up housing prices.

The same is happening on farms that are so short-staffed that Trump’s own Department of Labor warns the nation’s food supply is at risk.”

#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #deportations #economy #food #agriculture #jobs #LaborForce #housing
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"Vice President JD Vance claimed last week, ‘Illegal immigrants [are] taking houses that ought, by right, go to American citizens.’

But Trump’s mass deportation scheme actually works against the goal of making housing more affordable—because immigrants are a huge source of labor in the construction industry."

#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #deportations #economy #food #agriculture #jobs #LaborForce #housing
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“For years, the MAGA right has insisted that deporting undocumented workers would free up jobs, lower prices, and restore an imagined Leave It to Beaver-esque past where ‘real Americans’ can thrive. They particularly hammer (no pun intended) the allegedly positive impact of fewer immigrants on the housing market."

~ Landry Ayres

#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #deportations #economy #food #agriculture #jobs #LaborForce #housing
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-immigration-crackdown-is-making