Two Watermelon Stories: Panicked Pre-Harvest; Jubilant Post-Harvest
Here’s a good one for the “crops are rotting in the field” file. A favorite reporter theme that dates back at least... Read More
Trump Lets Down Summer Job-Seeking Teens; J Visa Rolls on
Bloomberg News recently ran a story that asked “Why Aren’t American Teenagers Working Anymore?” The story listed a host of valid reasons.... Read More
BLS May Report: Weaker than Anticipated; March, April Revisions Down, Bombshell in Footnotes
As the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, in May, only 138,000 jobs were created, fewer than Wall Street’s estimated 185,000. According to... Read More
Just Turned 35? Too Old to Work in Tech
The H-1B visa is acknowledged as the greatest contributor to American IT job displacement. Last year, several stories about the H-1B’s deleterious... Read More
Maine Hospitality Industry, in Annual Labor Shortage Panic, Goes Out of the Box, Considers Higher Wages for Locals
Here’s an idea Los Angeles’ sanctuary-obsessed Mayor Eric Garcetti should consider: hosting a job fair to help the high percentage of unemployed... Read More
California Senators Feinstein and Harris Propose Ag Amnesty
California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, along with Vermont’s Patrick Leahy, Colorado’s Michael Bennet and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono, recently introduced the... Read More
Report: No Cowboys Riding the Range on Montana Dude Ranches; H-1Bs in the Saddle
The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank that generally favors higher immigration levels, is nevertheless an ally on the adverse... Read More
Ag Pleads with Trump for More Cheap Labor, Claims the President Recognizes ‘the System is Broken’
Just as it does every spring, the agriculture industry descended on Washington, D.C. with its annual lament: We need more cheap labor!... Read More
Dreary March BLS Report Should Motivate Trump to Get Busy on his Promise to Reduce Immigration
The March Bureau of Labor Statistics report is surely not what President Trump wished for. The economy added a measly 98,000 jobs,... Read More
At UCSF, a Too-Familiar Tale; American Workers Fired, H-1Bs Hired
Recently, the University of California, San Francisco campus fired 49 information technology workers, and will replace them with foreign-born H-1B visa holders.... Read More