Unemployment Low For Computer Professionals (And Everyone Else)

A'Help Wanted' sign hangs on a window in New York City, May 4, 2018. U.S. unemployment has fallen to a near historic low of 3.9 percent and is even lower for computer professionals and engineers. The premise of the Trump administration's "Buy American and Hire American" executive order, which has unleashed numerous measures to restrict high-skilled immigration, is that U.S. professionals can't get jobs because of immigrants. This raises a legitimate question: Has anyone in the administration making U.S. immigration policy checked the government data on unemployment – or do they simply choose to ignore it? The unemployment rate among people with at least a bachelor's degree in "computer and math science" occupations was only 2% for the first quarter of 2018, according to estimates from the Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Population Survey.