President Donald Trump appears ready to ditch his Inauguration Day promise of a “Hire American” economic policy — even though thousands of auto workers are being laid off, millions of Americans do not have jobs, and many millions of Americans cannot get better-paying jobs.
President Trump added a line to his State of the Union address, saying that he wants legal migrants “in the largest numbers ever” to come into the United States.
During President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address (SOTU), the president asserted that it is working- and middle-class Americans who are left paying the price for unchecked, mass illegal immigration to the United States.
Salaries for college graduate Americans are growing much slower than for Americans who are working in transportation, restaurants, services, construction, and sales, according to federal data.
President Donald Trump used an interview with the Wall Street Journal to downplay expectations that the 17-member bipartisan panel on border security will propose an amnesty-for-wall deal.
Earnings are up and UK employment and job vacancies are as record highs at the UK experiences its lowest net EU migration since 2012.
The compromise shutdown deal reportedly being prepared by aides to the president would expand catch and release rules to aid millions of current and future illegal migrants and would paralyze enforcement for at least three years, immigration reformers said.
As the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) turns 25 this year, American manufacturing jobs and U.S. workers’ wages continue trying to come back after more than a decade of massive layoffs and stagnant pay.
The United States government should double annual immigration to two million per year because it would help the nation’s “workforce and economic health,” said an op-ed in the New York Times.
President Donald Trump’s hot economy is raising wages and bringing more sidelined workers back into the workplace, according to a grudging admission by a “Wonkblog” reporter at the Washington Post.
The H-2B visa program, whereby businesses are allowed to import foreign workers every year, has dragged down the wages of blue-collar Americans, a new study reveals.
Mitt Romney’s description of a great America does not include wage gains for Americans, marking a huge contrast from President Donald Trump’s celebration of the rising wages in his go-go economy.
The billionaire class — the country’s top 0.01 percent of earners — have enjoyed more than 15 times as much wage growth as America’s working and middle class since 1979, new wage data reveals.
Republicans must deliver higher wages to Americans, a Never Trump leader admitted Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Wealthy cities and elite zip codes thrived under the slow-moving economic recovery of President Obama while rural American communities were left behind, a study reveals.
And still no signs that tariffs are a problem for the economy.
An establishment group of D.C. experts is trying to reduce President Donald Trump’s support from working-class Americans in 2020 while refusing to offer any immigration reforms.
AAA Travel projects that more than 54 million Americans will hit the road for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend — the most since 2005.
President Donald Trump has issued his formal proclamation barring economic migrants who try to sneak across the U.S. border from being allowed to apply for full asylum.
New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says the 14th Amendment is used to drive down the wages of black Americans by incentivizing illegal aliens to come to the United States in order to be rewarded with birthright citizenship for their U.S.-born children.
The New York Times said on November 2 that President Donald Trump’s high-pressure economy “is the best time for the American labor market in at least 18 years and maybe closer to 50.”
President Donald Trump cheered the rising wages being delivered to Americans by his combination of a high-pressure economy and his “Hire American!” policy.
America’s working class is benefitting the most when President Trump tightens the country’s labor market through illegal and legal immigration controls, new data reveals.
The federal government should stop enforcing repatriation laws against illegal migrants who have jobs, Ohio Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown said in a TV debate with his GOP opponent, former Rep. Jim Renacci.
Although September’s figure came in lower than expected, huge revisions for August and July indicate the labor market is thriving in the United States.
The decision by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to raise starter wages to $15 per hour for warehouse workers may trigger a long-awaited corporate bidding war for workers, say economic analysts.
President Donald Trump is promising new action by agencies on immigration, amid determined bipartisan opposition on Capitol Hill to his low-immigration/high-wage polcies.
Wage growth outpaced expectations in the United Kingdom in the year to July, the latest figures show, with pay having risen above inflation for four straight months in good news for British workers.
Business-first GOP leaders are walking President Donald Trump into a post-election trap where he will be forced to approve more wage-cutting visa-worker programs if he wants an extra $3.4 billion for his border wall.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who would likely become Speaker of the House if Democrats win the midterm elections in November, trashed Friday’s jobs report — even though Blackrock called it “the greatest of all time.”
Hint: If we were desperately short of workers, wages would be rising.
American workers employed at small businesses across the United States are benefitting strongly with increased wages thanks to President Trump clamping down on immigration.
But with few signs of acceleration, there’s no need to fear inflation.
Inflation-adjusted wages were flat for the second month in a row.
The tight labor-market in Iowa is delivering higher wages, better working conditions and more training programs to employees in Iowa, where unemployment has dropped to roughly 4 percent, according to a report in Atlantic magazine.
President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy is pressuring companies to raise wages for interns, create job-training programs, and open up opportunities for middle-ranking students, says a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Over the past year, America’s private sector has added an average of 190,000 new jobs. That blistering pace of hiring is nearly double the rate of growth of the workforce, pushing unemployment down and then down some more.
Blue-Collar Wages Rise in Red-Hot Economy
Nearly half of Americans now say that illegal immigration to the United States reduces wages of the working and middle class, a new poll finds.
Workers in two American industries that many economists had consigned to the dustbin of history saw some of the biggest gains in wages, bonuses, and benefits in the start of 2018.
