These charts are fine, but they’re underwhelming for this sub.
DriftMantis on
It’s pretty interesting to see the covid drop and recovery. Not to get too political or get called a racist, but I do find this trend very concerning as someone who is not foreign.
middleupperdog on
Not a fan of resizing the chart’s y-axis to try to make the trendlines match. The increase in the share of foreign born population relative to the total population on the left is only statistically half the size of the change on the right. It’s zoomed in to try to make it look more like a similar amount of growth. It’s basically trying to advance a narrative that “the % of workers in the U.S. that were born overseas has increased by 3 percentage points since 2008” just doesn’t quite support that much.
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The data is sourced from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) [1]. Here are the relevant FRED links used to create this chart:
* Employment Level – Foreign Born [LNU02073395](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU02073395)
* (Not relevant to the image in question) Employment Level – Native Born [LNU02073413](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU02073413)
* (Not relevant to the image in question) Labor Force Participation Rate – Foreign Born [LNU01373413](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01373413)
* (Not relevant to the image in question) Labor Force Participation Rate – Native Born [LNU01373395](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01373395)
We used GGplot 2 in R to create this chart.
We look forward to hearing your feedback
These charts are fine, but they’re underwhelming for this sub.
It’s pretty interesting to see the covid drop and recovery. Not to get too political or get called a racist, but I do find this trend very concerning as someone who is not foreign.
Not a fan of resizing the chart’s y-axis to try to make the trendlines match. The increase in the share of foreign born population relative to the total population on the left is only statistically half the size of the change on the right. It’s zoomed in to try to make it look more like a similar amount of growth. It’s basically trying to advance a narrative that “the % of workers in the U.S. that were born overseas has increased by 3 percentage points since 2008” just doesn’t quite support that much.