Tariffs on Electric Vehicles? Biden and Trump’s Positions

  Today we are giving our take on the Biden administration’s announcement that it will be raising tariffs on a host of Chinese-made products. Given they are calling for a 100% tariff on electric vehicles, we appear not only in an international trade war but, a domestic trade war as  [...]

SpaceX Wrestles With The Technicalities of U.S. Immigration Law

  On August 24th, the Department of Justice announced it was suing Elon Musk’s "Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in its hiring practices." The news took off on X, formerly Twitter, with the ferocity of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, and as to be  [...]

Supporting our tired, our poor, our huddled masses yearning to breathe free

Given the numerous attempts to pack immigration provisions into current spending bills, there’s probably no better time to talk about the real meaning of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty has long been a beacon for immigrants, and not just any immigrants, but the poorest and most destitute  [...]

Meta/Facebook Needs a Makeover

Meta Platforms, until October 2021 known as Facebook, is in turmoil. Infamous for its commitment to employing H-1B workers, and simultaneously undermining qualified U.S. tech workers’ careers, the Silicon Valley titan is finally getting its just rewards. Sheryl Sandberg, a Facebook fixture for 14 years, and as Chief Operating Officer  [...]

Public policy nonprofit releases report on CHIPS and Science Act, cautions against hiring guest workers to fill jobs

Tariffs on Electric Vehicles? Biden and Trump’s Positions

  Today we are giving our take on the Biden administration’s announcement that it will be raising tariffs on a host of Chinese-made products. Given they are calling for a 100% tariff on electric vehicles, we appear not only in an international trade war but, a domestic trade war as  [...]

Biden’s Proposed Rule Change Is A Kick In The Teeth To American Workers

President Biden’s Department of Labor (DOL) is proposing a new rule that will hurt Americans employed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) occupations by making it even easier for employers to discriminate against U.S. workers in favor of foreign workers on H-1B visas. Before we dig into what this proposed rule change is, here is a quick primer  [...]

What Happened To Alphabet and Google Search?

Hello, and welcome to another Institute for Sound Public Policy podcast. I’m the Executive Director, Kevin Lynn. In this series, we offer our short take on daily stories impacting working Americans. Today’s story deals with Alphabet and how that company’s most popular product. Google Search, used by millions of Americans  [...]

Our NEPA Lawsuit Moves Forward

Executive Director's Corner Dear All: On August 11th, federal judge Trevor McFadden, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia ruled that a lawsuit brought forth by the Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform (MCIR) against three federal agencies can proceed. In a nutshell and according to the Boston Associated Press, “A group  [...]

Wooldridge Delivers the Overpopulation Message for the 21st Century – Will We Listen this Time?

As soon as the reader digs into Frosty Wooldridge’s “America’s Overpopulation Predicament: Blindsiding Future Generations,” s/he is hit with a staggering amount of stats on issues that, unless one lives in media isolation, should be somewhat familiar – peak oil, species/biodiversity extinction, consumption, pollution and the underpinning escalating all these  [...]

The American Southwest: Twice the people, half the water?

Colorado River Showing reservoirs, including iconic Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, shrunk to a fraction of their intended size, national news media is reporting that the American Southwest is in the worst 20-year drought in 1,200 years. Yet, no one asked why President Biden is hellbent on increasing immigration –  [...]

Calif. Gov., Feds Agree on Wildfire Management Plan

  Two years ago, California’s Little Hoover Commission warned that unless the state took immediate streps to limit wildfire probabilities, death and destruction were a near-certainty. The Little Hoover Commission, created in 1962, is an independent California state oversight agency modeled after the Hoover Commission – President Herbert, not FBI  [...]