Can future jobs created even match population growth? If not, how can we ever expect things to get better? (employment, average)

[Billy Millennium]

"The 2010 Census reported 308.7 million people in the United States, a 9.7 percent increase from the Census 2000 population of 281.4 million." http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/b...c2010br-01.pdf

When they say "people in the United States" this is probably just the citizen population. These numbers don't take into account millions of illegal immigrants or people on work visas.

How will things get better (job-wise) in the U.S. when our population continues to rapidly increase? How will there be enough jobs? We all know how high unemployment is already. Even if, hypothetically speaking, the U.S. is able to create thousands or millions of new jobs it appears to be a tall task to match population growth.

Simple thread I know. But I'm curious how things can actually get better in the U.S. regarding jobs with such a booming population that shows no signs of slowing down. Maybe if the U.S. tightened its belt with legal immigration that could help.

Will 10%+ unemployment be the future of America?

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[lordvader44]

I don't think it will be that great for the average worker in the future. Especially when companies look at human labor as something to be reduced at any cost to increase profits. Al , robotics and companies that employ less and less humans are growing at an astonishing rate.

[chet everett]

When it comes to "work & employment" there are numerous paths to increased employment -- some countries have better policies when it comes to fostering the kinds of things that are needed to make employmet attractive.

More people means more need for goods and services.

[Billy Millennium]

Originally Posted by lordvader44

I don't think it will be that great for the average worker in the future. Especially when companies look at human labor as something to be reduced at any cost to increase profits. Al , robotics and companies that employ less and less humans are growing at an astonishing rate.

Yep well said about technology taking human jobs away. More and more jobs going overseas, technological advances that will only get better, and a booming population. Not good for the American worker.

Originally Posted by chet everett

When it comes to "work & employment" there are numerous paths to increased employment -- some countries have better policies when it comes to fostering the kinds of things that are needed to make employmet attractive.

More people means more need for goods and services.

But will people have money to buy these services? I just see our country getting poorer unless I can be convinced otherwise. Wages keep going down, employers have all the leverage with so many people out-of-work. Situation seems dire.

[Hemlock140]

The population increase due to U.S. births has slowed dramatically since people have stopped having a lot of kids, 1955 average number of kids/family was 3.7 and now just 1.894. We had welfare reform in 1996 which reduced the rewarding of single mothers for having more kids with different fathers. Other than the illegal immigration to the southwest states much of the recent increases in population are well educated and financially stable immigrants from Asia and Europe, who have brought money with them and have found good, steady jobs, or have started/bought successful businesses. That is the 2nd biggest factor in the difficulty for new job seekers to compete. Immigrants with better educations, better job ethic and more cash in pocket and work experience will gain percentage of new jobs as employers continue to complain that our school systems are not preparing people to do the work they need done. The main factor, of course, is outsourcing due to our government regulation, culture of lawsuits, and unions.