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A dozen restaurants in the Central West End area of St. Louis hosted a job fair Monday in the Chase Park Plaza ballroom but did not see many applicants come through the door, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Economists had expected claims to rise to 615,000.

Former President George W. Bush says the United States needs more foreign workers to take American jobs, even as nearly 17 million Americans are unemployed. 

President Joe Biden’s administration is giving businesses 22,000 more foreign H-2B visa workers to hire for working class jobs, even as nearly 17 million Americans remain jobless. 

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that Syrian refugees from the area around Damascus should return home because Denmark has assessed the region to be safe.

Around 675,000 migrants living in Sweden are either on welfare benefits or are not able to support themselves through work, according to statistics from the Swedish Parliamentary Investigative Service (RUT).

Black unemployment is up. Gasoline prices are up. Food prices are up.

The median forecast was for 658,000 and an unemployment rate of 6.0 percent.

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 Chinese coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing national lockdown measures have cost the British economy some £251 billion over the past year, a report has found.

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.

Nearly 17 million Americans remain unemployed in the United States economy, though all want full-time jobs, as President Joe Biden’s administration looks to pack the labor market with foreign workers.

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