stood up and said, if we want to tighten the workforce, we have to tighten up the immigration numbers. of course, you saw and people don t remember this, but barack obama was called the deporter in chief. illegal crossings his last year as president dropped to a 50-year low. donald trump comes in, of course, very harsh policies at the end. he had a spike and it started to go down. there s chaos at the southern border now, and there has been the past year or two. still, though, historically, immigration numbers are lower than they ve been. right. i m wondering, how much of this is responsible for having such a tight job market? was the guy that everybody scoffed at five years ago, talking about tidying up immigration to bring unemployment down, is that guy right? is that what we re seeing now? let me say, america can have the country that it wants and the economy that it wants.
Unemployment in the first quarter of 2022 shrank by 130,000 to around 1.3 million from the previous quarter, reflecting a labour market post-pandemic recovery, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Based on data from the Wyoming Economic Analysis Division, the state has seen a continued increase in jobs over the past year as tax revenues are also increasing.