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A vital demographic of the American electorate, swing state voters in the heartland who side with economic populists against corporate special interests, are being sought after by a number of Democrats running for the United States Senate.

Mass immigration to the United States is partly responsible for the nation’s “staggering inequality” among black Americans, the former head of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation says.

On this day in 1996, Civil Rights icon Barbara Jordan died just weeks before Congress and then-President Bill Clinton were set to advance her reforms to illegal and legal immigration focused on protecting poor and working class Americans from waves of job-killing and wage-crushing mass immigration. 

Thousands of employees at Kroger began a strike in Denver recently to demand higher wages, additional benefits, and safer workplaces.

More Americans are working but real earnings are down by a near record amount.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday told reporters he will run for the Republican Senate leadership position again after the 2022 midterms.

Because of Bidenflation, workers are worse off even though nominal wages are increasing at historic rate.

Actress Susan Sarandon is calling for Americans to boycott Kellogg’s in solidarity with striking union workers across the United States whom the woke company executives have vowed to replace.

President Joe Biden’s pending Build Back Better (BBB) bill will shrink inflation by cutting Americans’ wages in a flood of roughly 9 million legalized and new workers, according to Facebook-funded FWD.us, a leader in the pro-amnesty movement.

House and Senate Democrats who have claimed to be champions for labor unions are silent as the Kellogg Company, whose largest shareholder is the left-wing W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is set to replace about 1,400 American union workers who have been on strike since October. 

Democrats are openly arguing that more wage-cutting migrants should be imported to shrink the inflation that is threatening President Joe Biden’s political future. 

Wages in Canada are shrinking under the double damage of immigration and inflation, says a report by Bloomberg News. 

U.S. investors cannot safely invest in many poor countries, so the countries’ populations should migrate to the United States, a Republican-aligned economist said.

President Donald Trump’s tight labor market from 2017 to 2019 pulled many left-behind Americans into work and jobs, setting the stage for higher economic growth, says a report by JPMorgan.

The Igloo Products Corporation, known for producing ice chests, coolers, and other products, imported foreign visa workers to take United States manufacturing jobs over hiring qualified Americans, a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation finds.

Real average weekly earnings are down 1.4 percent compared with a year ago.

President Joe Biden plans to fix the border meltdown by inviting economic migrants to come in legally, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said in a conversation with Stephen Miller, the former immigration deputy in President Donald Trump’s White House.

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McDonald’s says they are forced to raise menu prices as worker wages climb, as well as close down some restaurants due to labor shortages and slower service in some locations, according to reports.

Construction CEOs in Arizona are pressuring Democratic Senators Krysten Sinema and Mark Kelly to back the Democrats’ wage-cutting amnesty in the pending reconciliation bill.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) is urging Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to oppose a “corporate carve-out for unlimited foreign labor” that Democrats have slipped into a filibuster-proof budget reconciliation package. 

House GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy and allied legislators are promising to defund President Joe Biden’s easy-migration policies in 2022.

President Donald Trump’s 2020 policies stopped the inflow of roughly 1.2 million foreign workers, according to a report by the business-funded Cato Institute.

The CEO of Domino’s Pizza, Ritch Allison, says the United States needs more immigration to drive up the nation’s population.

The shortage of migrants and willing Americans is forcing food-industry CEOs to treat their employees with more respect, says the personnel chief at one of the nation’s largest restaurant firms.

Vice President Kamala said on Wednesday that workers not making enough money is partly to blame for the supply chain crisis.

President Joe Biden’s chief of staff is claiming credit for pay raises — while Biden’s border chief is also allowing roughly one million illegal foreign workers to take Americans’ jobs at lower wages this year.

President Joe Biden’s border security chief is promising to end the workplace enforcement of migration laws, and to help illegal migrants extract more wages from their U.S. employers.

Lordstown Motors, the electric vehicle start-up company that promised hundreds of jobs this year, is set to sell the Lordstown, Ohio manufacturing plant that General Motors (GM) idled in 2019 to the Tawain-based multinational corporation Foxconn. 

Thousands of poor and uneducated migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, and other countries have successfully hacked President Joe Biden’s pro-migration rules at Del Rio and are now cheering their release into the United States.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Monday amnesty and migrants are needed to prevent labor shortages.

The White House’s economic advisors tried Friday to hide their admission that migration and amnesty suppress the wages that Americans can earn. 

A lobbyist in Mark Zuckerberg’s investors’ group is promising cautious legislators in Congress — and conflicted journalists — that an amnesty for millions of illegals will actually raise wages for Americans.

A shortage of workers is an advantage for the United States because it ensures wage raises and productivity gains, says an op-ed in the New York Times.

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler says the United States must give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, claiming such a policy “would benefit” working class Americans across the nation. 

GOP Representative Peter Meijer (R-MI) has drafted a bill to raise and widen the huge inflow of migrants from Afghanistan into Americans’ communities, workplaces, and housing.