So, tell me where I'm wrong about the nature of the job revisions:
1. A business that employs 15 natives and 5 non-work-visa immigrants tells the federal government it has 20 employees. Don't want someone to snoop around.
2. Business tells the state employment office that it has 15 employees, because they would have to pay unemployment insurance on the other 5 who are off the books.
3. Monthly surveys go out, they tend to report all actual jobs.
4. Federal reconciliation with state employment offices: some of those actual jobs are deemed not to exist because they are off the books.
I'm fairly certain that would describe the process for an undocumented worker. I'm not sure if it would apply to a TPS worker. That is, I don't know if TPS recipients are eligible for unemployment (I would doubt it), and thus this set up might also create excessive reporting for TPS employees.
If this is true, then it's hilarious that nobody wants to talk about it. Dems don't want to admit that a million immigrants were working off the books. Pubs don't want to admit that they are working at all (since then they wouldn't be dangerous criminals). But the reality is that the illegal immigrants are actually bolstering a strange labor force. Note that unemployment rate didn't change much over all of these revisions, so what's happening is that the illegal immigrants are taking the jobs Americans don't want. Thus did the economy create documented and undocumented jobs in approximately equal numbers . . .
