E-Verify, Tight Labor Markets, Wage Increases: That’s Good News
The unemployment rate has fallen to 3.8%, the lowest since 2000, and the black unemployment rate fell to 5.9%, the lowest rate... Read More
Good News for U.S. Workers, H-4 Employment Authorization to End
Buried in the newest Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs bulletin is the announcement that the Trump administration plans to end employment... Read More
November Bureau of Labor Statistics Report Encouraging, but Automation Advancing
Robots prepare pizzas quicker than humans. The November Bureau of Labor Statistics report exceeded expectations, and offered hope that the economy is... Read More
October BLS, Bad Overall; Wages Terrible
Thousands line up for Amazon jobs fair, only a few got hired. No matter how dismal the monthly Bureau of Labor... Read More
Federal Judge Blocks White House Refugee Travel Ban; Hurtful to Marginally Employed U.S Workers?
WOTC hurts American Workers Recently, and for the third time, Hawaii Judge Derrick Kahala Watson struck down President Trump’s travel ban just... Read More
Bad Bureau of Labor Statistics September Report—Minus 33,000 Jobs
Hurricanes Irma, one of three storms blamed for weak September jobs report. Going into the Bureau of Labor Statistics release of it... Read More
On Labor Day: Remembering Samuel Gompers Warning; ‘Lowest Possible Wage Workers’ will Overwhelm American Job Market
Defender of American Workers, Gompers’ Memorial in D.C. Almost a century ago, Samuel Gompers, a London-born immigrant and the American Federation of... Read More
Silicon Valley Systematically Shutting Out American Minorities
Report: In tech, Blacks, Latinos, Women under-employed. Silicon Valley has long abused the H-1B visa that grants foreign nationals permission to temporarily... 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