On Aug 12, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> That is because many construction workers were undocumented immigrants
> who do not show up in statistics.
There's something to this, but: 1) they were counted in the expansion (up 30% from 2001-2005, and now off only 4% from the peak), and 2) they show up in part in the survey of employers, who are simply asked how many jobs they have, not who fills them.
Doug