Category Archives: Labor
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 [...]
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 [...]
More Employment-Based Visas Swiftly Approved, E-Verify Stuck ‘on the Table’
This weekend, President Trump, frustrated with her ineffectiveness, asked for and received the resignation of [...]
$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. 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 [...]
Lackluster November Jobs Report Bodes Poorly for 2019
An unspectacular Bureau of Labor Statistics November report casts doubt on the health of the [...]
Despite Strong Case, U.S. Tech Workers Lose Tata Discrimination Suit
U.S. tech workers suffered a startling federal court defeat when an Oakland, Calif., jury ruled [...]
Japan Gambles on Guest Workers as U.S. Poised to Double a Cheap Labor Visa Program
In a surprising departure from Japan’s low-immigration history, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently agreed to [...]
Fed OPT Program Hits Record High; U.S. Worker Displacement Unabated
Optional Practical Training (OPT), a temporary employment program for foreign undergraduate and grad students on [...]
After Midterms, U.S. Tech Workers Still Friendless in Congress
In Kansas’ Third District, IT has a strong presence with Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Over [...]
Latest DHS Report: Raining Work Permits for New Immigrants
If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say that he opposes [...]
Doubters Challenge Report that Illegal Immigration is Twice as High as Traditional Estimates
“The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States: Estimates based on demographic modeling with [...]
Fed Chair Calls Slow Wage Growth ‘A Puzzle,’ Ever-Expanding Foreign-Born Force Unaddressed
In its new study, “Tapping the Skills of Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States,” [...]
Countless Employment-Based Visas Undermine American Workers
Dozens of federally issued employment-based visas granted to foreign workers offer multiple opportunities to deny [...]
Prioritizing Hiring American Doctors Should be the Standard
Outsourcing U.S. jobs to foreign markets followed by replacing local workers with foreign laborers has [...]
High-Tech Companies’ Lobbying Efforts in Full Gear for Foreign Workers
A telling Mercury News story pits high-tech industry leaders against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, [...]