Tag Archives: immigration

Amnesty: the Bad Penny That Always Shows Up

Promptly after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced its June migrant crossing data, 189,000, [...]

MLK and the Dignity of Work

Minister and activist Martin Luther King, Jr., became synonymous with the Civil Rights movement from [...]

Chinese Spies Subvert Clueless Congress

A Chinese spy scandal is rocking Capitol Hill, and little wonder. The Eric Swalwell-Fang Fang [...]

Biden’s Looming Population Surge

More than 70 million Americans hope that President Trump can pull off the seemingly impossible, [...]

Congress Keeps U.S. Doctors Sidelined while Championing International Doctors

Congress, immigration advocacy groups and immigration lawyers are urging the Trump administration to increase the [...]

On Immigration, Trump Promises One Thing, Does the Opposite

Predictably, the Trump administration added 35,000 temporary H-2B visas that will allow foreign nationals to [...]

Never-Say-Die House Passes Another Ag Amnesty

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

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 [...]

Eric Holder to 2020 Dems: Tone Down Immigration Rhetoric or Lose

Every week, immigration stories demonstrate how frustratingly elusive, even after decades, common sense reform that [...]

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 [...]

California Off the Rails, State a Disaster Zone

When former California Gov. Jerry Brown announced his ill-conceived, ill-fated high-speed train that no one [...]

Projecting Population Growth to 2100

About the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Project   Immigration has a huge influence on 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. [...]

World Population Day 2019

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$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 [...]

NY Times Reporter Reveals Her Immigration Stories’ Sources: Lawyers and Immigrants

In a recent interview, New York Times immigration reporter Miriam Jordan revealed how she goes about [...]

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 [...]

Why Immigration Reform Failed in 1986: To Find Out, Do the Math

I’m a native Californian who grew up in the 1950s when the state was truly [...]