Category Archives: Employment and Immigration

Transitioning from Trump

Among President Trump’s 75 million-strong voters, the day’s biggest question is what he’ll do during [...]

Surprise! Americans Will Work at Tony Resorts

For more than three decades, America’s skilled and unskilled workers have been forced to compete [...]

Identity Theft Occurs Every Two Seconds

In its 2018 analysis, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) uncovered potentially 39 million identity [...]

Tom Seaver and Baseball’s Altered Game

Baseball fans will be a long-time mourning Tom Seaver’s passing. “Tom Terrific” was an icon [...]

Mulvaney: U.S. ‘Desperate’ for More People

One Capitol Hill lead pipe certainty: every year Congress will try to pass legislation to [...]

Uber is the Latest Cheap Labor-Addicted Employer to Lay Off Americans, Hire H-1Bs

Uber, the multinational ride-hailing company that burst onto the scene in 2009, and made Yellow [...]

Never-Say-Die House Passes Another Ag Amnesty

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 [...]

BLS Report Encouraging to Vulnerable Hispanics, Blacks and the Disabled

As if the unappetizing buffet of presidential candidates isn’t troublesome enough for the Democratic Party, [...]

New Report:
53 Million Americans Hold Low-Wage Jobs

The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program just released a study that casts serious doubt on [...]

BLS Report Reflects Lower Average Wages: An Explanation

As the classic Johnny Mercer/ Harold Arlen tune goes, let’s “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive.” The White [...]

Ag Secretary Calls for More Guest Workers as ‘Solution’ to Immigration Problem

Every time an immigration conflict appears on the horizon, expansionists press for one of two [...]

August BLS Report Omits Key Data Revealing Future Worker Challenges, including Immigration and Robotics

Shortly after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August report which showed that the [...]

Labor Day: Four Decades of Dramatic CEO Income Growth; Peanuts for Workers

A recent Economic Policy Institute Study titled “CEO Compensation Has Grown 940% since 1978” is [...]

Donald Trump, Elijah Cummings, Maxine Waters and the Neoliberal Abandonment of America’s Industrial Cities

In a recent fit of pique, after having been attacked for weeks by U.S. Rep. [...]

To Increase Wages, Mandate E-Verify, Shrink Labor Market

Democratic presidential candidates have unanimously embraced the $15 federal minimum wage. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]

A New Summer Brings the Predictable Foreign Worker Exploitation

Summers come and go. And some are more memorable than others – better weather, extraordinary [...]

The National Resident Matching Program No Longer Meets Doctor Needs

The National Resident Matching Program No Longer Meets Doctor Needs American Med School Students Graduate without [...]

$15 Minimum Wage Imploding; Tight Labor Market Better Path to Higher Income

Raising and sustaining higher wages for American workers is impossible as long as the labor [...]

More Immigration Incompatible with Layoffs, Automation

The Economic Policy Institute recently released its U.S. wage study. Titled “State of Working America [...]

Lousy February BLS Report: Blip or Grim Omen?

On second thought, maybe the United States’ job market isn’t as strong as President Trump [...]

U.S. Universities Educate 1.6 Million International Students, Creating Winners and Losers

Nearly 1.6 million international university students were enrolled in the U.S., according to the most [...]