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.
President Donald Trump reacted Friday to the shocking unemployment numbers for the month of April, lamenting in an interview it was “fully expected” as the country shut down to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
Nearly 80% of those who lost their job in April think they’ll get it back when the economy reopens.
Never before has the U.S. economy employed such a small share of our people.
While this job loss carnage is an American tragedy, it could have been twice as bad if it weren’t for the over 30 million jobs saved by the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the $670 billion small business forgivable loan program.
The scale of the job loss has been breathtakingly sudden despite an unprecedented level of support for the economy .
Another bad week for American workers.
The GOP War Room distributed a video on Tuesday of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) promoting workers taking part in a nationwide strike.
United States Senate candidate Jeff Sessions says there is no shortage of American labor, calling out lawmakers and their “corporate friends” for supporting a continued flow of foreign workers to the U.S. to take jobs in the midst of mass unemployment.
Far more Americans are worried that inflation will go higher than are worried about unemployment going higher over the next 6 months.
That brings new unemployment claims, a proxy for layoffs, over the past six weeks to around 30 million.
A majority of Americans want all immigration to the United States halted in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, a new poll reveals.
Gov. Ned Lamont (D) made a point Monday of asserting states such as Georgia and Oklahoma are opening up businesses “prematurely” and that Connecticut residents would have to get accustomed to social distancing as part of a “new normal.”
A Connecticut state employee union official rejected Republicans’ call to delay workers’ raises even as the state has 21.5% unemployed.
Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) says President Donald Trump should expand his immigration executive order to suspend the H-1B visa and Optional Practical Training (OPT) programs that bring thousands of white-collar foreign workers to the United States every year to take high-paying American jobs.
Here’s how Donald Trump can get re-elected even if unemployment is higher than it has been since the Great Depression.
President Donald Trump blamed Democrats on Monday for delayed state unemployment benefits, noting he preferred to send Americans the money directly.
A spa owner told her staff she qualified for more than $200,000 in stimulus loans, but staff knew they would be making less than what they would under unemployment.
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.
President Donald Trump’s executive order slowing green card processing for a modest group of foreign nationals may be much “more significant” if it is extended and expanded beyond its 60-day period, immigration policy experts say.
President Trump signed an executive order slowing some green card processing, though a prior draft of the order was much more expansive and broad, Breitbart News has learned.
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.
Republicans seem mostly supportive of President Trump’s announcement that he would temporarily suspend legal immigration to help Americans.
A pair of New York City residents set up a fund where New Yorkers who work from home can donate their commuting fares to laid-off workers in need of the money.
Democrats are slamming President Trump’s plan to temporarily stop legal immigration to the U.S. during the coronavirus outbreak.
Gov. Jim Justice praised President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak while warning of a looming “full-fledged depression.”
A report found that the economic fallout from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic will leave 11.7 million Britons out of work by the summer, as the Treasury warns that the national lockdown will have a permanent impact of the economy.
More than eight-in-ten American adults call mass migration at least a “threat” to the United States, a survey finds.
A survey by the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research reports that “less than half of Los Angeles County residents — 45% compared with 61% in mid-March — still hold a job” thanks to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Labor Department announced today that 5.2 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total over the last four weeks to 22 million — or 14 percent of the people employed prior to this crisis.
Another week of job destruction across the United States.
The Chinese coronavirus has brought unemployment to about ten million Americans in just weeks. In past times of unemployment, such depressions have been met with record low immigration levels.
The Agriculture Department and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows are reportedly eyeing a plan to depress farmworker wages for the agricultural lobby in the midst of mass unemployment spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
In a Friday interview on Fox Business Channel’s “Mornings with Maria,” Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia weighed in on the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the United States economy and employment as nearly 17 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the last three weeks.
A staggering 16.8 million Americans have been thrown onto the unemployment rolls in just three weeks.
Foreign workers brought to the United States on the H-2A and H-2B visa programs, through a fast-tracked process by the State Department, will only undergo additional medical screening if they have symptoms of the Chinese coronavirus, Breitbart News has learned.
“This is a huge, unprecedented, devastating hit,” Yellen said. “My hope is that we will get back to business as quickly as possible.”
The United States does not need any more foreign labor imported for businesses during record joblessness as a result of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says.
