Category Archives: Project for American Employment & Economic Security
Mechanization is Permanent Solution to Ag Labor Shortage
California Democrats Sen. Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren recently reintroduced bicameral legislation to [...]
Donald Trump Zig-Zags on ‘Hire American’ Promise
President Donald Trump told reporters he wants technology companies to import and hire more foreign [...]
Lackluster November Jobs Report Bodes Poorly for 2019
An unspectacular Bureau of Labor Statistics November report casts doubt on the health of the [...]
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 [...]
Into the Weeds on Wages
The Economic Policy Institute, a respected nonpartisan, nonprofit Washington, D.C., organization, recently published a report [...]
Politicon October 2018 Coverage
IFSPP covered POLITICON, a wild and raucous SoCal event that features high-profile players in politics [...]
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 [...]
Labor Day is No Celebration for Struggling Americans
Trying to figure out how many employment-based visas the State Department issues is a dizzying [...]
Do We Want to Win Elections? If So, We Must REPENT & REBUILD
Arizona Senator John McCain died this week. Progressives and Democrats have been issuing a series [...]
GOP Swamp Alligators Busy Subverting U.S. Workers
From an unlikely place, deep red Kansas, comes a plot to add to the cheap [...]
Chemical Abortion Abounds But Still Not Freely Enough
My wife, Sally’s sister, Judith Kahrl, the founder of Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights(GRR!!) had her July [...]
Policy Watch: Congress Locked in Spending Battles
As we leave July behind and move forward into August, we approach the end of [...]
Voter Purges Are A Reality, And What You Can Do
A new report by the Brennan Center shows that millions of registered voters were purged from [...]
Massachusetts: Shouldering the Burden of Tech Layoffs
With a strong economy and many technology jobs, Massachusetts is shouldering the burden of tech [...]
How to Help Puerto Rico Today
Almost a year after the devastating Hurricane Maria, reporters are still trying to discover the [...]
Congress in Chaos as Backlog Builds Up
Congress, as always, has been busy lately. Or at least the House of Representatives: Of [...]
A New Standard for Law Enforcement Bias. . .
Yesterday, I was looking through coverage of the Congressional Hearing where Mr. Strzok of the [...]
Can We Save the Supreme Court?
Trump just got a nice present before a heated midterm election. On the final day [...]
It’s Time For Marijuana Decriminalization
Last week, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer introduced legislation to decriminalize marijuana on a federal [...]
Fourth of July And The Specter of The Fourth Turning
Back in the 1980’s I was a counterintelligence officer for the Army, and early on [...]
Policy Watch – Immigration Bills Flounder
It’s almost the end of June and here we are with another edition of Policy [...]
The “Space Force” is Not What We Need Right Now
“Brave cadets of the United States Space Force Academy are signing up today to fight [...]
Ranked Choice Voting Empowers Voters
Maine is undergoing an experiment in their elections, one which has never been tried on [...]
Fracking is a Waste of Money and Nature
As we acknowledge World Environment Day and World Oceans Day this week – days to recognize the [...]
For World Environment Day, We Need to Act on Plastic
June 5th is World Environment Day, and later this week on June 8th is World Oceans Day, [...]
May Jobs Report Shows Big Gains for Foreign-Born Workers
The heralded Bureau of Labor Statistics report has an interesting, but unreported on, component in [...]
DHS Shock Announcement: More Employment-Based Visas, Fewer American Jobs
Federal agencies that deal with immigration love to deliver bad news late on Friday afternoon. [...]
Policy Watch: Protect and Serve?
Congress has taken its Memorial Day recess, but there is still legislation in Congress that [...]
California Gubernatorial Hopefuls Share Same Platform of Building More Housing
California’s six gubernatorial candidates – four Democrats and two Republicans – have one common platform: build [...]