A majority of U.S. voters believe that Americans are willing to do jobs along the entire spectrum of the economy – from construction and hospitality to technology and service jobs – if the pay and working conditions are improved, according to a recent …
foreign workers
In the summer of 2012, President Barack Obama infuriated small business owners by declaring during a campaign rally that “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” His full comments reflected the broader theme of his stump speech that the gover…
During a recent interview on Fox’s “Mornings with Maria,” host Maria Bartiromo spoke with Richard Trumka – the president of the largest federation of labor unions in the U.S., the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizatio…
If the claim sounds illogical, that’s because it is. In one of their most desperate attempts yet to promote mass immigration during a time of unprecedented employment, some in the open borders lobby are now claiming that temporary foreign workers are a…
A lobbying campaign by the Koch network, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other open-borders groups to keep up the flow of immigrant workers is running into opposition from voters in several swing states. In a letter to White House advisers Jared Kushn…
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged: “I will end the use of the H-1B [foreign workers]as a cheap labor program forever, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program….
When President Trump issued an executive order (EO) on April 22 to temporarily suspend the entry of some foreign workers into the United States, there were 30 million unemployed Americans. With 10 million additional jobless claims filed in the last mon…
The news Thursday was predictably grim for American workers. Another 4 million people filed first-time unemployment claims, bringing the total number of unemployed to 43 million. Meanwhile, in an alternative universe that exists on Wall Street and in c…
Ahead of this week’s deadline for a federal review of work permit/visa programs, a new study calls for cutting the influx of temporary foreign labor by almost half. President Donald Trump’s April 22 proclamation suspending a tiny fraction of immigratio…
Even in a normal job market, it is hard to fathom the Department of Labor (DOL) would “let H-1B employers undercut” over qualified American applicants so they can insource foreign workers, who they pay at below-market wage levels. Yet, that is exactly …