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Senate Seeks to Reward Wealthy Foreign Investors with Citizenship-for-Sale Green Cards
While Congress is focused on impeachment, impeachment and more impeachment drama, a proposed behind-the-scenes bill [...]
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 [...]
Coming Soon, a Borderless U.S.
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) shocked most observers, including her New England neighbor and fellow [...]
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: More Guest Workers ‘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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Public Charge Rule is Pro-Immigrant, Pro-America
No sooner had the Trump administration announced its intention to impose a new rule that [...]
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 [...]
Post-Earth Day Thoughts about Sustainability
Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson’s daughter Tia recently said that her father would be “deeply [...]
Earth Day 2019: Since Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon, Global Population has Doubled
Fifty years ago, in 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk [...]
National Resident Matching Program Fails Many Doctors
The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization created in 1952 to [...]
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 [...]
$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 [...]
Congress Ignores World Water Day Warnings
Friday, March 22 is World Water Day, a day designated to raise awareness about the [...]
More Immigration Incompatible with Layoffs, Automation
The Economic Policy Institute recently released its U.S. wage study. Titled “State of Working America [...]
Continued Immigration Hard on Existing Immigrants, Native-Born Alike
A case can be made that those who suffer the most from never-ending immigration are [...]
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. Educates 1.6 M International Students With 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 [...]
Finally! Federal Indictments against Birth Tourism Criminals
As the old saying goes, half a loaf is better than none. Today’s subject isn’t [...]
Overpopulated, Income-Unequal California Finds Solution: More Immigration!
Only a few of us are still around – native-born Californians who lived in the [...]
Swamp Swallows Trump
President Trump wants more people to come to the United States! With my own two [...]
Trump Zig-Zags on Immigration
in State of the Union Address
In his State of the Union address, President Trump said some of the right things [...]
Trump Organization Adopts E-Verify; Mandatory Nationwide Use Could Follow
Last week, the Trump Organization, an umbrella group that oversees more than 500 companies which [...]
Mechanization is Permanent Solution to Ag Labor Shortage
California Democrats Sen. Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren recently reintroduced bicameral legislation to [...]
In Federal Court, Exploited Foreign Workers Score Big Win
If asked to identify the most unnecessary visa, hurtful to American workers and prospective workers, [...]
Call to Journalists: Return to Your Abandoned Professional Standards
On New Year’s Eve, The Washington Post published a shockingly biased, even as measured in the [...]