The Trump administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) has implemented new prevailing wage rules that both political parties should get behind – but probably won’t. Taking aim at a system that has crassly commodified H-1B visa workers while displacing qu…
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FWD.us, the tech industry’s mass immigration advocacy mouthpiece, has declared with the certainty of scientific fact that our “Economic recovery from COVID depends on a citizenship pathway for 11 million undocumented immigrants.” Of course, the declara…
The big picture argument against the alphabet soup of guestworker programs (the H-1B, H-2B, H-2A, etc.) is that they are essentially a cheap labor subsidy to business resulting in stagnant wages or outright job losses for American workers. The foreign …
12 Nov: Brookings Institution Report Misleadingly Suggests GuestWorker EO Cost Corporations Billions
The Brookings Institution recently released a report titled “An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion; The Impact of an Immigration Ban’s Announcement on Fortune 500 firms Valuation,” in which they attempted to paint President Trump’s guest worker pause a…
The United States economy is continuing to recover from massive job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the September report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States added 661,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 7….
After months of being quashed by the coronavirus pandemic, “high-skilled” temporary work visas are creeping up again. From a low of 500 in April, issuance of H-1B and related visas climbed back to 2,200 in July (the latest month for which figures were …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last week signed legislation which will clear the way for inmate firefighters to have their records expunged and to become eligible for a real firefighting job once they are released from prison. The bill, which applies…
It is not unusual in and of itself to hear of a disgruntled employee taking revenge against their former company. But there are some key facts and lingering questions about the case of Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh which warrant some discussion about foreign w…
The Kentucky Derby, one of horse racing’s largest events, will occur on September 5 after a long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The “fastest two minutes in sports” will also happen without any fans after Churchill Downs walked back on earlier plan…
Here’s a cool little story that didn’t get any play during the Democratic and Republican conventions that tirelessly trumpeted the benefits of immigration: Colorado ski resorts are hiring young Americans for thousands of seasonal-work positions this wi…