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President Trump bucked the political establishment in his own party and the donor class, siding with American workers, by halting a series of foreign visa worker programs.

President Trump expanded an executive order on Monday, halting a series of visa programs that bring hundreds of thousands of foreign workers to the United States to take American jobs.

President Donald Trump has ordered his deputies to issue regulations to stop companies from using H-1B workers as cheap-labor substitutes for American graduates.

President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will eliminate a loophole in the asylum system that gives out work permits to about 50,000 border crossers every year. 

A big reopening for the golden arches is planned for this summer

Jobless claims fell by less than expected last week.

The jobs gains in May boosted consumer sentiment much higher than expected.

Two sectors were basically immune to the shutdown layoffs: finance and the federal government.

The owner of a manufacturing plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says he will move his business out of the city after officials failed to protect his livelihood from being set on fire in riots this month. 

The shutdowns related to the coronavirus pandemic hurt Hispanic and African American employees more than white employees, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data, released in last Friday’s jobs report.

The Department of Homeland Security is asking companies if they would like to build stretches of border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The widely reported tick up in black unemployment was due to a rising number of African Americans returning to the workforce

“If we could work along with them, it would be great,” he said. “If we don’t, we’re going to do great as a country anyway … but if we could work along with the Democrats, and I am open to it.”

A member of the White House Press Corps shouted a question at President Donald Trump during a Rose Garden press conference on Friday morning: “How would a better economy have protected George Floyd?”

The NYT columnist and economist Paul Krugman made the unsubstantiated claim that the great May jobs numbers might be “cooked.” He later apologized while still downplaying the record gains.

President Donald Trump on Friday celebrated a new jobs report showing better-than-expected economic numbers in the month of May.

Shock gains in employment!

Jobless claims fell below 2 million for the first time since the pandemic and shutdowns hit the U.S. economy.

The AP private payrolls report suggests the labor market may be healthier than it has looked.

Business lobbyists are bombarding President Donald Trump with demands that he drop his draft plan to let Americans get some of the good U.S. jobs now held by at least one million foreign contract-workers.

Government agencies around the country are hiring thousands of foreign H-1B workers to fill well-paid government jobs needed by U.S. graduates.

Young likely voters are eager for President Trump to end the abuses of the H-1B visa and Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, an American college student says.

Continuing claims hit a record high of just over 25 million.

Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress are failing to take the looming public sector job crisis seriously. And Pelosi has been purely cynical.

Pro-migration lobbies and media outlets are protesting President Donald Trump’s emerging plans to transfer Fortune 500 jobs from foreign visa workers back to Americans amid the coronavirus crash. 

Despite more than 33 million Americans filing for unemployment in recent weeks due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, business is continuing to demand more foreign workers to take jobs in the United States. 

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) urged Congress on Friday to pass a jobs bill to support businesses to rehire Americans that have been laid off and support payrolls to protect American jobs. 

Nearly 80% of those who lost their job in April think they’ll get it back when the economy reopens.

The scale of the job loss has been breathtakingly sudden despite an unprecedented level of support for the economy .

The hardest-hit sector was leisure and hospitality, which shrank by 8.6 million jobs in April.

Ford said it is cutting costs, which means falling income for suppliers.

The share of Americans expecting more jobs six months from now rose from 16.9 percent to 41.0 percent.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is asking President Trump to suspend a number of foreign visa worker programs while more than 26 million Americans are unemployed due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis. 

Another tough week for American workers.

President Trump says his upcoming executive order to pause most legal immigration to the United States will ensure that the roughly 22 million unemployed Americans will be “first in line” for jobs when the nation reopens in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. 

Walmart plans to hire 50,000 more employees to keep up with consumer demand during the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced Friday.