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FAIR Fights to Protect the Jobs and Wages of American Workers

RJ Hauman — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:52:06 +0000

Last week, FAIR’s government relations team submitted its fifth public comment of the year, urging the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to raise the wages employers are required to pay foreign workers and implement American worker-protection rules that were issued under the Trump administration. The January 2021 rule, which was quickly delayed after President Biden [...]

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Unemployment Rate Continues to Drop, But We Have a Long Way to Go

Madison McQueen — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:17:35 +0000

The United States economy is continuing to recover from massive job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the September report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States added 661,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 7.9 percent. This is down nearly 7 percentage points from the peak COVID-related unemployment rate [...]

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The Scam of Federal Workforce Training Programs

Jennifer G. Hickey — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:54:57 +0000

An article headline in the tech industry magazine Dice Insights sounds like great news for unemployed or underemployed Americans – a Department of Labor (DOL) “workforce grant program could eliminate H-1B workers.” Described by the writer as “designed to replace H-1B workers sourced from overseas with homegrown equivalents,” the H-1B One Workforce Grant Program sales [...]

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No Need To Look Abroad For Solutions to Real Labor Shortages

Jennifer G. Hickey — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:41:58 +0000

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last week signed legislation which will clear the way for inmate firefighters to have their records expunged and to become eligible for a real firefighting job once they are released from prison. The bill, which applies to non-violent offenders, viewed in broader terms represents the kind of innovative thinking needed [...]

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August Unemployment Numbers: The Guestworker Pause is Still Necessary

Preston Huennekens — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 19:45:01 +0000

The Department of Labor released the unemployment report for the month of August, finding that the economy continues to improve, albeit very slowly. While the 8.4 percent unemployment rate is significantly lower than the 14.7 percent at the height of the COVID-19 economic crisis, it remains far above the pre-virus level of 3.5 percent. These [...]

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Jobs Americans Won’t Do? Most Americans Not Buying the Rhetoric

Dave Ray — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:16:25 +0000

A majority of U.S. voters believe that Americans are willing to do jobs along the entire spectrum of the economy – from construction and hospitality to technology and service jobs – if the pay and working conditions are improved, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports online survey. Contrary to the public policy elite in Washington, [...]

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