Tag Archives: Trump

With the Will, Lowering the Political Temp Not Hard

  Every day for the last ten years, I’ve given daily thanks that I grew  [...]

Second GOP Debate More Wasted Time

The second GOP debate was useless to voters that hoped to glean new insights into  [...]

Trump Indictment Must Not Distract from Border Crisis

President Trump’s formal accusation, and whatever the fallout from it may be, must not distract  [...]

Chamber of Commerce Wins Big, U.S. Tech Workers Lose

A George W. Bush federal judge appointee voided a Trump-era H-1B regulation that switched the  [...]

Refugee Resettlement: The Sky is the Limit

The State Department recently identified 19 U.S. cities as preferred destinations for Afghan refugees. Chosen  [...]

Biden Administration Rejects Student Visa Time Limits

In a move consistent with the Biden administration’s walk back of former President Donald Trump’s  [...]

Biden’s DOL Guts Reform, Hurts Tech Workers and College Grads

Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor announced an 18-month delay in the effective date of  [...]

Biden Removes Visa Freeze, More Workers to Enter U.S.

Effective April 1, tech workers – most notably H-1Bs, F-1 visa holders that may be  [...]

Transitioning from Trump

Among President Trump’s 75 million-strong voters, the day’s biggest question is what he’ll do during  [...]

Biden’s Goal Must be Tight Labor Market

Immigration advocates have a watchful eye on the Southwest border these days, where multiple reports  [...]

Biden: Americans Last!

For the roughly 70 million disappointed America First voters, dark clouds have already formed over  [...]

Calif. Gov., Feds Agree on Wildfire Management Plan

  Two years ago, California’s Little Hoover Commission warned that unless the state took immediate  [...]

Feds Announce Positive Changes for U.S. Tech Workers

Relief for U.S. tech workers who have been unfairly displaced by craven employers came late  [...]

Highest Paid Federal Worker Lives in Knoxville, Tennessee

The highest paid federal worker in America made about $8 million last year. Despite being  [...]

Rumor: Kushner on Trump’s Chopping Block

Immediately after President Trump appointed son-in-law Jared Kushner as a Senior White House Advisor, the  [...]

On Immigration, Trump Promises One Thing, Does the Opposite

Predictably, the Trump administration added 35,000 temporary H-2B visas that will allow foreign nationals to  [...]

Borders? We Don’t Need No Stinking Borders!

It’s rather startling that not more has been said about the suspension of flights to  [...]

Mulvaney: U.S. ‘Desperate’ for More People

One Capitol Hill lead pipe certainty: every year Congress will try to pass legislation to  [...]

The China Syndrome

I am a working class person. I don’t apologize for this. Yes, I went to  [...]

Trump’s Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

On November 11, Chad Wolf, acting Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy and Plans at the  [...]

The Neoliberal Abandonment of America’s Industrial Cities

In a recent fit of pique, after having been attacked for weeks by U.S. Rep.  [...]

Trump Administration Proposes Zero Refugees in 2020

During a recent meeting with the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and about  [...]

Is New Immigration Proposal Merit-Based or Foreign Labor Dumping?

President Donald Trump in his May 16, 2019, immigration policy speech alluded to, but did  [...]

Graham Border Bill Would End Human Trafficking, Tighten Labor Markets, Ease Hospital and School Overcrowding

Better late than never – words that apply to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s new bill that  [...]

Kushner’s Immigration Plan Would Displace More American Workers from Good Jobs

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner’s immigration plan is a direct threat to thousands of  [...]

Assange, Trump’s Immigration Proclamations, a New LACMA

On April 13th Kev & Steve discussed the arrest of Julian Assange, Trump’s threat to  [...]

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  [...]

Swamp Swallows Trump

President Trump wants more people to come to the United States! With my own two  [...]