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Super-charged unemployment benefits may finally be starting to bite.

President Joe Biden has restarted a number of visa programs, allowing United States companies to more readily outsource jobs even as about 17 million Americans remain jobless. 

If you look beneath the headline numbers, the total number of Americans claiming jobless benefits rose in early March.

New weekly jobless claims fell to 684,000 for the week that ended March 20, the Department of Labor said Thursday.

The illegal migrants brought to the United States by their illegal migrant parents “are true and legitimate heirs … of our founders,” House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA) said in a Thursday speech on the House floor. 

New weekly jobless claims rose to 770,000 for the week that ended March 13 the Department of Labor said Thursday.
Economists surveyed by Econoday had forecast a decline to 700,000.

It will be harder to get people back to work because incomes will be very high without work.

While unemployment fell in February among Asians and Hispanics, and dipped slightly for whites, it rose for blacks, according to data released Friday.

Democrats have agreed to extend enhanced unemployment insurance through September with a smaller boost to benefits, according to multiple media reports.

The U.S. economy created 379,000 jobs in February, far more than expected.

Tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and are collecting unemployment. Yet businesses across the U.S. tell Fed officials they cannot find enough workers.

President Joe Biden has restarted allowing companies to fill scarce U.S. jobs with foreign workers after a major lobbying effort by big business interests, even as more than 17 million Americans remain jobless.

The unemployment rate rose for a six straight month in December as renewed coronavirus restrictions shut down most businesses.

A coalition of business groups led by the United States Chamber of Commerce are lobbying President Joe Biden’s administration to allow them to import foreign workers even as more than 17 million Americans remain jobless.

New weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rose by 13,000 to 861,000 in the week that ended February 13, the Department of Labor said Thursday.

President Joe Biden’s administration is suggesting that foreign workers have a right to compete for jobs in the United States labor market against jobless Americans. 

President Joe Biden recommitted on Tuesday that he wants to pass an amnesty for 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States even as more than 17 million Americans remain jobless.

A review of the economic literature published in academic journals over the past few decades shows that most studies find minimum wage hikes eliminate jobs.

The total number of people receiving unemployment benefits rose to 20.4 million in the week ended January 23.

New claims for unemployment benefits fells  slightly last week to 793,000, a decline of 19,000 from the prior week’s upwardly revised figure.

Apparently, President Joe Biden thinks of immigration like he does stimulus money – a freebie for a favored constituency.

A group of Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), have reintroduced legislation that would mandate E-Verify, the program designed to protect the United States workforce by banning employers from illegal hiring. 

In a speech in New York Wednesday, Fed chair Jerome Powell downplayed the risks of inflation and urged lawmakers to embrace higher spending to restore the labor market.

The labor market may have ended the year in slightly better shape than thought. The number of job openings climbed in December to 6.6 million, up from 6.5 million in November. Economists had forecast a decline to 6.4 million jobs.

Fed survey picks up confusing signals about the direction of the economy.

Millions of Americans are projected to remain jobless for the next three to four years, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), though President Joe Biden is looking to fill American jobs with foreign workers.

A major setback at the start of an administration that claims to be focused on racial inequality

Millions of Americans remain jobless, but all want full-time jobs, even as President Joe Biden’s administration seeks to flood to United States labor market with foreign competition via more legal immigration and an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

An economic S.O.S. from the labor market.

Economists had expected a smaller dip.

About 100 House Democrats are urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to include an amnesty for certain subgroups of illegal aliens in a relief package for Americans impacted by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

Just as Joe Biden started his new job as president, he ended the jobs of thousands of workers connected to the canceled Keystone XL Pipeline.

Michigan suffered the worst job losses in the country in December as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) latest lockdown stretched well past the announced three-week phase.

The general manager of the Keystone XL pipeline said “hundreds” of workers have already been laid off after President Biden axed the project.

The Swedish municipality of Strömstad has seen a 700 per cent rise in unemployment due to travel restrictions implemented after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue says the business group “will work cooperatively” with President-elect Joe Biden to expand legal immigration levels to the United States in order to fill American jobs with foreign workers as 18 million Americans remain jobless.