Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.

Due to population growth, it is reasonable that construction would account for 8.8 percent of all jobs in Western states, somewhat higher than the national average of 5.4 percent.

President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

Our population continues to grow, so we have had to add positions to handle that growth,