November private payrolls unexpectedly fell by 32,000, led by steep small business job cuts, ADP reports

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5. I heard a segment on NPR's Marketplace

saying that the economy could lose jobs and still keep treading water, due to the collapse in immigration. The speaker didn’t seem to be a reich-wing apologist, just stating the basic fact that when the population is shrinking employment can shrink and unemployment will stay the same.
I wonder what effects this will have on an economy which has always been based on growth.

It seems to me that 4 years of this and unemployment might be steady but consumer demand, and prices will shrink. Probably the shrinking real prices will be offset by the falling value of the US dollar. It seems to me that this will further concentrate wealth at the top.