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 ...
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 on the H-1B employment visa:
When an ...
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 in their daily work lives, has ...
The monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics report should be called the original “fake news.” Such is the case with the January 2024 report which announced that the economy added 353,000 jobs. Each month, District of Columbia’s anonymous civil servants grind out much-anticipated jobs data that Wall Street and financial journalists latch onto as the nation’s ...
Little by little, the truth about academic life on university campuses is leaking out. Although not as dramatic or headline-grabbing as the Harvard, Penn, and MIT scandals, the myth that science, technology, engineering and math degrees (STEM) will lead to a well-paid, white-collar job is gradually being debunked.
In his Los Angeles Times opinion commentary, U.C. ...
For more than three decades, employers have routinely, but falsely, complained that the worker shortage makes importing overseas labor mandatory for their economic survival. The H-2A and the H-2B visas are mostly granted to blue-collar workers. On the other hand, the H-1B visa issued to IT workers denies college-educated tech ...
After decades of frustration in their efforts to make major employment breakthroughs in the IT industry, black tech workers may have found a valuable ally. Nex Cubed founder and Chief Executive Officer Marlon Evans has identified tech as an industry where talented individuals affiliated with Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs) ...
U.S. Tech Workers (USTW), an activist organization operating under the nonprofit watchdog Institute for Sound Public Policy’s aegis (IfSPP), has filed a charge with the Department of Justice (DOJ) under its Immigrant Rights Section. The charge claims that two Chicago-based companies, P33 and Techicago, specifically solicited foreign H-1B visa holders ...
A United Nations report predicted that India will surpass China with the dubious distinction of becoming the world’s most populous nation. India is projected to add 3 million more people by mid-year which will push its total population to 1.4286 billion, 2.9 million more than China’s 1.4257 billion. Another somber statistic ...
Within less than 72-hours, President Joe Biden bailed out the Silicon Valley Bank and the equally insolvent Signature Bank. The banks’ abrupt failures caused a withdrawal rush on other banks across the nation that Social Science Research Network analysts fear could force nearly 200 depositories to shut their doors. Even insured depositors ...
Given the numerous landmines that faced immigration restrictionists during the always perilous, fraught-with-amnesty lame duck session, the results turned out pretty well. As usual, several proposals that would have harmed Americans, and specifically U.S. workers, lurked around every corner. But in the end and despite the treacherous bills many supporters, and ...
Like the proverbial bad penny that keeps reappearing, lousy immigration bills are hard to kill off. Consider the EAGLE Act of 2022, also known as Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment, or formally recognized as H.R. 3648. The newest proposed legislation is another iteration of the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants ...
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The long-awaited buyout of Twitter by Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally happened and as hinted, Musk immediately fired the CEO, Parag Agrawal, and the company's Chief Legal Officer, Vijaya Gadde.
Both executives, coincidentally immigrants from India, were accused of mishandling the company and working with certain government agencies to censor speech under the blanket of “disinformation”. ...
Elon Musk, Twitter’s new Chief Executive Officer, and the firings he immediately called for that included H-1B visa holders, as well as the tech industry’s mass, across-the-board layoffs, raise a three-decade-old question: should the H-1B visa be eliminated, and should U.S. tech workers be put first in line for the white-collar, well-paid jobs?
Musk, who completed ...
In August, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that corporate profit margins during the previous three months established a new record. In all, corporate profits for 2022’s second quarter hit $2 trillion. BEA released its data after oil companies, food giants, agriculture and other major industries also ...
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This week, I’m shifting our focus to halfway across the globe to the political drama unfolding in the United Kingdom (UK). Britain has just appointed its third prime minister (PM) in less than two years representing the fastest turnover in the country’s history. Liz Truss survived a mere 44 days and the current ...
Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs released a memorandum which said, in short, that more immigration is the solution to the persistently low labor participation rate. For the 12 months ended September 2022, the U.S. labor force participation rate ranged between a low of 61.7 percent and a high of 62.3 percent.
Goldman theorizes that the ...
A federal jury in Chicago recently found Chinese national Ji Chaoqun, 31, a member of the U.S. Army reserves, guilty of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government. The jury also found Chaoqun guilty of one count of making false statements to the U.S. Army during his application process. ...
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This week my typically morose demeanor became a notch or two rosier despite the spate of rather bleak news. And the news was bleak.
First, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a rule change that prevents poor migrants from being considered a public charge if they utilize government services for things like healthcare.
Now, ...
Give Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh grudging credit. Walsh may be the only honest man in President Biden’s administration. When asked to comment on the August Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report and the alleged worker shortage, Walsh didn’t give a mealy-mouthed reply.
Instead, Walsh, supposedly appointed and confirmed to represent the American labor force, ...
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Happy Labor Day from us here at U.S. Tech Workers. A while back I was listening to song called Sixteen Tons and it struck a chord with me. In the chorus the lines go “I owe my soul to the company store” and “another day older and deeper in debt.
Those lines refer to ...
Unemployed individuals, especially during sustained jobless periods, suffer from stress that is often so intense that mental anxiety ultimately affects their physical well-being. Losing the self-identity and confidence that comes from having steady employment and regular income creates an enormous physical and mental challenge. The physical setbacks most likely to ...
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Last week I was discussing with colleagues the incredible value of the many legal files Bob Heath bequeathed to U.S. Tech Workers.
For those who didn’t know Bob, he was a tech worker who took it upon himself to appear pro se before the court, meaning to act as his own attorney and bring ...
Sanctuary cities are once again in the headlines. But this time, sanctuary cities, the bane of immigration law enforcement advocates, have a different spin. Since five-time deported illegal immigrant Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate murdered Kate Steinle in July 2015 on Pier 14 in San Francisco, state and city governments have persisted ...
Founder's Corner
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It’s been two years since I had the honor of advocating on behalf of American tech workers in-person at the White House. Many of you will recall the story of how I got there, but in a nutshell, here it is.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was just about to lay off 20% of ...
Beware media-promoted bipartisan immigration bills. Strictly speaking, such legislation is bipartisan because a Republican and a Democrat introduce it. In reality, however, the Republican is often as much of an immigration expansionist as his Democratic colleague.
Such is the case with the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act ...
The announcement that a Chinese company purchased about 300 acres of prime North Dakota property is the latest in an ongoing landgrab by one of America’s biggest threats. Historically, Chinese nationals are one of the largest purchasers of U.S. residential property, with an average of between 20,000 and 40,000 transactions annually.
On ...
According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of gaslighting is:
To psychologically manipulate (a person) usually over an extended period of time so that the victim questions the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and experiences confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, and doubts concerning their own emotional or mental stability: to subject (someone) ...
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 the No. ...
Bobby Heath was a unique individual. He was passionate about his causes, family and friends. His friends and family would all agree he loved to challenge authority and appreciated spirited discussions. He moved to Florida from NC around 40 years ago and found the climate was much better for his health. Bobby had a parade ...
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When agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO) were passed they impacted workers in almost every corner of the world. The question that looms large is who the winners are and who are the losers?
Elyssa believes workers ...