Richmond Fed Manufacturing Survey Points to Higher Wages Despite Contraction
Wages increased and business remain optimistic but overall activity contracted in February, the Richmond Fed said.

Wages increased and business remain optimistic but overall activity contracted in February, the Richmond Fed said.

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.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is promising to tear down President Donald Trump’s border reforms which have almost stopped the northward flood of poor migrants into Americans’ workplaces, neighborhoods, and schools, and which have also raised wages and opened opportunities for sidelined Americans.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, claimed that President Donald Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” economy is not helping lift the poorest of Americans out of poverty.

Pete Buttigieg of South Bend falsely claimed during the Democrat Debate that President Trump “turns his back” on middle-class communities.

There remain about 11.4 million Americans who are out of work, sitting on the labor market sidelines but wanting full-time jobs.

The New York Times reported Friday morning that African American workers are seeing their wages rise for the first time after a “decade of stagnation,” further evidence of the strength of the U.S. economy.

During a town hall event in Derry, New Hampshire, a swing voter asked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) why he now supports unchecked immigration rather than holding true to his former position that such a policy is an effort to suppress Americans’ wages by the donor class.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who supported convicting President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial, profited thousands of dollars every time an American worker was laid off from their job after investments by his firm Bain Capital.

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.

During the 2020 State of the Union address, President Trump said his “Buy American, Hire American” economic nationalist policies have created a “blue-collar boom” in the United States.

Congress should pass an immigration law that delivers a steady flow of foreign visa workers to U.S. employers, Pete Buttigieg says.

The wealth tax does more than just tax the wealthy: it would lower wages and shrink the economy.

American consumers are largely tired of businesses groveling to political correctness and social justice campaigns to appease liberal customers, instead wanting them to prioritize their workers through higher wages and better benefits.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the United States was “formed” by immigrants, not citizens, and thus Americans must not think of the immigration issue “narrowly.”

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.

Left-wing populist Michael Tracey says it is a “major political liability” for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to be “percieved” of as endorsing an open borders agenda in the 2020 election.

The foreign-born share of the U.S. workforce is slightly declining as President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy pulls millions of sidelined Americans into the job market.

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.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) admits cheaper illegal alien workers drive down wages for America’s working and middle class, but continues to support amnesty for illegal aliens, decriminalization of the United States-Mexico border, and throwing out President Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” executive order.

There remain more than 11 million Americans who are out of work despite claims by the big business lobby of a so-called “labor shortage.”

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.

White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump said the United States’ legal immigration system must be a balance between attracting the “greatest talent in the world” while not displacing Americans who are transitioning jobs or entering the workforce after years on the sidelines.

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.

A deal struck between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors (GM) has won full-time jobs for about 930 American workers who have been temporary workers for the automaker and wage hikes.

Investor, CEO, and presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg says he would allow investors and employers to hire the “the best” workers from around the world instead of Americans.

The United Kingdom is set to raise the national living wage by April in what the government describes as “the biggest cash increase ever”. However, business owners worry the raise will negatively impact employment.

Overall net migration has dropped to the lowest level this decade, according to the latest Census Bureau data.

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.

The nation’s most prominent labor unions are coming out strong to support President Trump’s United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal that will replace the job-killing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

The 2020 Pentagon spending bill contains a camouflaged provision allowing any U.S. president to amnesty millions of illegal immigrants — regardless of the shock to Americans’ wages, workplaces, and communities, says a former immigration judge.

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.

Nearly all House Democrats, plus a group of 34 Republicans, voted Wednesday to approve an amnesty for illegal farmworkers and to outsource more of the nation’s farm workforce to cheap H-2A visa workers.

The United Food and Commercial Workers union and several other left-wing, anti-poverty groups are opposing the Democrats’ amnesty-for-cheap-labor deal, which faces a vote in the House today.
