#immigration-restrictions

#immigration-restrictions

Driving the news: Friday's jobs data confirmed that the weak hiring that became clear in last month's report was no head-fake. The economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, with health care among the few sectors with increasing employment. The intrigue: Once again, the real stunner came in the revisions, which showed the economy's 53-month-long streak of jobs growth ended in May.

"Even just before the pandemic, refugees who applied to bring family to the UK did so on average more than one or one years after they were granted protection. Long enough for them to get jobs, find housing and be able to provide their family with some support," Cooper said. "Here in the UK now however those applications now come in on average within one month, even before a newly granted refugee has left asylum accommodation. As a consequence, refugee families who arrive are far more likely to seek homelessness assistance."