Even Record Gains in Worker Pay Fall Behind Soaring Costs of Living
Wages and salaries are up by a record amount. Unfortunately, the cost of living is rising even faster.
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Wages and salaries are up by a record amount. Unfortunately, the cost of living is rising even faster.
The House Republicans’ campaign arm has rushed out a report showing Republicans are gaining support from Latino voters because of pocketbook economic policies, including opposition to illegal migration.
“So-called ‘immigration reform’ is all about profits,” says Michael Lind, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Florida is hoping to hire more truck drivers, with some companies offering high salaries and signing bonuses.
George W. Bush is still urging Congress to import more visa workers 17 years after he pushed Congress to adopt his very unpopular “Any Willing Worker” cheap labor law.
Average wages rose sharply in 2019 in then-President Donald Trump’s go-go economy and also rose again in 2020 as China’s coronavirus pushed many lower-income people out of jobs, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Joe Biden’s deputies can bypass Congress and use their bureaucratic powers to open the U.S. economy to millions of foreign graduates, blue-collar workers, and chain-migration families, says a legal guidebook posted by the Cato Institute.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says Americans’ wages will rise amid a huge inflow of amnestied migrants and new immigrants.
Universities are lobbying against a White House reform that will likely provide jobs and higher salaries to hundreds of thousands of their American graduates.
Employers are being forced to pay unexpectedly higher wages to recruit during the coronavirus crash, despite high unemployment numbers, says a September 6 report by Bloomberg.
The long-awaited reform of the H-1B outsourcing program that was promised by Donald Trump in 2016 has been sent to the White House for approval, according to a chorus of concerned corporate immigration lawyers.
“If Democrats really wanted to help minorities and underserved communities … they’d limit immigration to protect American workers,” Donald Trump Jr. said in his speech on the first night of the convention.
Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife has 14 staffers paid on a $2 million budget as New York City deals with a budgetary crisis of not being able to maintain city parks or make regular trash pickups.
The inflow of job-seeking migrants does not cut Americans’ wages, says a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter at California’s Los Angeles Times.
The rising rates of suicides, drug overdoses, and other “Deaths of Despair” are spreading from blue-collar white Americans to the broader group of Americans who hold lower-wage college degrees, says Angus Deaton, one of two professors who detected the post-2000 epidemic.
President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend immigration will protect wages for Americans, according to a Tuesday morning statement from the White House’s press secretary.
U.S. and foreign companies have asked for H-1B visas to import 275,000 foreign graduates for white-collar jobs, according to an April 1 statement from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.
Taxpayers should bail out the low-wage migrant workers who support the city’s elite economy during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by the city’s comptroller, Scott Stringer.
Texas Roadhouse founder and CEO W. Kent Taylor is committing to forgoing his base salary and bonus for the year in order to pay employees during the coronavirus pandemic, a spokesperson confirmed on Thursday.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is trying to accelerate the delivery of H-1B foreign workers to U.S. and Indian companies — despite the crashing economy and abundant evidence that many American graduates are facing discrimination and exclusion from software jobs.
Fox News’s townhall session with President Donald Trump on March 5 averted any questions about raising wages or curbing the legal inflow of foreign workers.
Ivanka Trump and Larry Kudlow praised President Donald Trump’s tight labor market during a February 28 CPAC 2020 event.
President Donald Trump’s ‘tight labor’ policies are boosting wages, but he should loosen immigration policies to supply business with more imported workers, says the Washington Post’s editorial board.
Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security will import 45,000 extra foreign workers for GOP-aligned small businesses, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
President Donald Trump’s ‘Hire American,’ low-immigration policy is giving Americans employees a larger share of company profits, so the federal government should raise the supply of foreign workers, according to a mournful editorial column in the Wall Street Journal.
Lower migration is driving up blue-collar wages, and those extra wages are stabilizing the U.S. economy, admits the Economist magazine, which serves as a community newspaper for globalist elites.
Florida’s E-Verify bill will likely push 140,000 illegals out of Florida jobs and make it difficult for employers to hire replacement workers at current wages, says a university study funded by the investors who are trying to block the E-Verify bill.
President Donald Trump downplayed the goal of pro-American immigration reform in his 2020 State of the Union speech by providing only a sketch of a much-touted 2021 reform push.
The nation’s immigration policies are built on a back-room corporatist bargain between Democrats and cheap-labor businesses, says an op-ed published in the New York Times.
Twenty-one top Democrat state officials are trying to block a White House reform that would protect Americans’ jobs and wages from hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants and economic migrants who try to get U.S. jobs.
Blue-collar and white-collar Americans “are being clobbered, they’re being killed,” former Vice President Joe Biden claimed at the January 14 Democrat debate in Iowa.
Immigration makes all of America richer, but it can make some Americans poorer, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says in a report issued January 9.
Rising wages are good for politicians, for employees, and for the economy, Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told Breitbart News.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has valuable information about employment in the United States, including the top-paying first-time jobs.
Companies will face greater pressure in 2020 to recruit and train blue-collar Americans and also to pay extra wages, say company officials and economists.
Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and GOP Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) predicted Wednesday that they would pass their revised S.386 bill, which opens a new pathway for more foreign temporary workers to stay, take Americans’ jobs, and lobby for more green cards.
GOP Sen. Mike Lee’s revised S.386 Indian-giveaway bill makes a huge change in immigration law to help more than 600,000 Indians — but also may allow investors to flood the white-collar labor market with at least 100,000 extra foreign college-graduate workers each year.
Joe Biden is promising investors that he will flood the white-collar labor market with a huge inflow of cheap foreign graduates, but he is offering only paperwork protections to the millions of U.S. graduates who will lose jobs, salaries, and careers.
Americans who oppose large-scale immigration are “snakes and vermin,” says one of the most moderate columnists at the New York Times.
Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 green-card giveaway has created a new opponent: dairy farmers who fear his bill will kill their ability to recruit and reward long-serving dairy workers with U.S. green cards.