President Donald Trump is vowing to expand his pro-American worker agenda through more immigration restriction as Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden offers a vision for a flooded labor market with increased foreign competition.
A majority of undecided voters say they see immigration as a labor issue, supporting reductions to legal immigration in order to protect the United States labor market from cheap, foreign competition, a survey finds.
A sign that the labor market may have strengthened at the end of July.
There is no shortage of U.S. technology graduates, says a detailed study in Bloomberg.com, which normally echoes Fortune 500 employers in demanding more imported H-1B visa-workers.
While 47 Republican lawmakers ask President Trump to bring more foreign workers to the United States, there remains no labor shortage with 30 million Americans unemployed, all of whom want full-time jobs.
The share of Americans expecting more jobs six months from now rose from 16.9 percent to 41.0 percent.
The coronavirus has roiled financial markets but the labor market remains very strong.
The labor market remains very strong with very low levels of layoffs and unemployment.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 202,000 last week.
President Donald Trump’s “Public Charge” reform to exclude legal but unskilled and unhealthy migrants is being denounced by progressives and business groups as a damaging change in federal economic policy — amid evidence it will nudge wages upward for most Americans.
Confidence is high enough to prevent the economy from slowing down in the first half of 2020, the Conference Board said.
It’s a virtuous circle for the economy: consumer spending supports labor market strength which supports consumer spending.
The U.S. private sector added 202,000 positions in December, according to an estimate from ADP and Moody’s Analytics.
The bottom 25 percent of American wage earners secured the largest wage hikes year-to-year compared to all others for November, newly released data reveals, thanks to President Trump’s tightening of the United States labor market.
Another sign that the economy is finding a firmer footing as we move away from the summer of 2019’s imaginary recession.
The imaginary recession of 2019 is over.
Jobless claims fall back down toward record lows.
The U.S. labor market displays surprising strength going into the holiday season.
The labor market continues to show signs of strength, supporting consumer spending and ongoing economic growth.
In a speech to a busines group in New York, Trump touted rising wages as “great for our country.”
The strike by workers at General Motors plants across the country is the clearest demonstration of a shift in the U.S. economy that began nearly two years ago.
Fewer women get married when fewer men earn a decent salary in an unstable economy, says a study from Cornell University.
Jobless claims fell to a seasonally adjusted 209,000 for the week ended August 17, suggesting recession fears are overblown.
Elaine Parker of Job Creators Network writes at Fox News that the $15 federal minimum wage bill passed in the House would lead to lay-offs and sabotage young Americans just entering the workforce.
Elaine Parker writes about how the emphasis on four-year liberal arts colleges creates a gap in the labor market by neglecting to promote the attainment of valuable skills that could be taught for less money by vocational or trade schools.
The picture of the economy painted by the Fed’s Beige book is a little brighter than it was earlier this year.
More than 12 million Americans have remain sidelined from the U.S. workforce despite their wanting full-time employment, federal data suggests.
Job growth picked up in March after a dismal February.
Economists had expected jobless claims to fall to 225,000. Instead, they fell all the way down to 216,000.
President Trump is reversing his campaign commitment to reduce overall legal immigration levels to the United States and thus raise the wages of America’s working and middle class, as he is now demanding more immigration.
