With Unemployment Going Up, What's The Answer? More Foreighn Workers Of Course.

With Jobs Disappearing, Congress Determined to Admit More Foreign Workers
By Ira Mehlman

Congress adjourned for a month-long recess on Aug. 1, the same day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics released distressing news about unemployment. The July economic news was not good. The official unemployment rate hit a four-year high of 5.7 percent, as the economy shed 51,000 jobs last month, bringing the total of lost jobs for 2008 to 463,000. [full column]