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The AP private payrolls report suggests the labor market may be healthier than it has looked.

Government agencies around the country are hiring thousands of foreign H-1B workers to fill well-paid government jobs needed by U.S. graduates.

Young likely voters are eager for President Trump to end the abuses of the H-1B visa and Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, an American college student says.

Continuing claims hit a record high of just over 25 million.

Pro-migration lobbies and media outlets are protesting President Donald Trump’s emerging plans to transfer Fortune 500 jobs from foreign visa workers back to Americans amid the coronavirus crash. 

Despite more than 33 million Americans filing for unemployment in recent weeks due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, business is continuing to demand more foreign workers to take jobs in the United States. 

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) urged Congress on Friday to pass a jobs bill to support businesses to rehire Americans that have been laid off and support payrolls to protect American jobs. 

The scale of the job loss has been breathtakingly sudden despite an unprecedented level of support for the economy .

The hardest-hit sector was leisure and hospitality, which shrank by 8.6 million jobs in April.

Ford said it is cutting costs, which means falling income for suppliers.

The share of Americans expecting more jobs six months from now rose from 16.9 percent to 41.0 percent.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is asking President Trump to suspend a number of foreign visa worker programs while more than 26 million Americans are unemployed due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis. 

Another tough week for American workers.

President Trump says his upcoming executive order to pause most legal immigration to the United States will ensure that the roughly 22 million unemployed Americans will be “first in line” for jobs when the nation reopens in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. 

Walmart plans to hire 50,000 more employees to keep up with consumer demand during the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced Friday.

A survey by the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research reports that “less than half of Los Angeles County residents — 45% compared with 61% in mid-March — still hold a job” thanks to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Americans who have grown weary of globalism might wish to spend more time considering an emerging new center-right alternative to failure: Hawleynomics.

The Agriculture Department and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows are reportedly eyeing a plan to depress farmworker wages for the agricultural lobby in the midst of mass unemployment spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis. 

Farm and feed retailer Tractor Supply Company announced Monday it will add 5,000 new jobs during the current coronavirus outbreak, calling the hiring drive its “most ambitious” ever.

The coronavirus has ended the longest job creation streak on record.

More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week.

Factory production and employment fell in March as the coronavirus shutdown major parts of the economy.

The ADP report showed overall private payrolls falling by just 27,000, far fewer than the 125,000 decline forecast.

Amazon will invest over $350 million to add 100,000 new jobs and to increase pay by $2 per hour in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic.

Economists had been expecting 177,000 jobs in February.

The coronavirus has roiled financial markets but the labor market remains very strong.

The Swedish Employment Service has warned that migrant unemployment rates are set to dramatically increase to the worst levels since the 1990s in a new report.

CLAIM: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) seemingly blamed President Trump for the roughly 500,000 Americans who are living homeless today.

CLAIM: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed during the CBS Democrat debate on Tuesday evening that President Trump’s economy is “not so good” for working class Americans.

Progressive Insurance announced plans on Tuesday to hire more than 8,000 people across the country this year.

While the enormous increase in government spending would create jobs, many more would likely be eliminated by the Green New Deal.

For the second month in a row, the survey of manufacturing businesses in New York came in better than expected.

The labor market remains very strong with very low levels of layoffs and unemployment.

Job openings fell but the ratio of unemployed to openings remains at historically low levels, indicating labor market strength.

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.