Breitbart Business Digest: To Anticipate the Fed’s Next Move, Watch the Jobs Numbers
If you want to figure out where monetary policy is heading next, watch the labor market.
If you want to figure out where monetary policy is heading next, watch the labor market.
An Oregon McDonald’s decided to turn to young teenagers to fill jobs after having difficulty finding employees, the Washington Examiner reported on Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of Indian contract workers are tied to their U.S. employers for many years because U.S. companies have offered them green cards as payment for compliant labor, according to a new report by the Cato Institute.
President Trump signed an executive order slowing some green card processing, though a prior draft of the order was much more expansive and broad, Breitbart News has learned.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is trying to accelerate the delivery of H-1B foreign workers to U.S. and Indian companies — despite the crashing economy and abundant evidence that many American graduates are facing discrimination and exclusion from software jobs.
Ireland’s ethnic lobbies in Congress are trying to sneak a bill that would allow the Department of State to trade away several thousand upscale jobs per year that are needed by U.S. college graduates.
Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf announced on Thursday that he will allow American businesses to import an additional 35,000 foreign workers to take non-agricultural jobs through the H-2B visa program.
Demand for U.S. welding jobs continues to rise as fewer students are seeking out trade school as a career path.
Employers have quietly converted an imported army of 451,000 Indian temporary workers into permanent U.S.-based workers by merely putting them in the multi-year line to become legal immigrants.
Congress should pass an immigration law that delivers a steady flow of foreign visa workers to U.S. employers, Pete Buttigieg says.
123 Republicans in the Senate and House are pleading with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf to bring more foreign workers to the United States to compete against working-class Americans for jobs.
U.S. Steel announced that more than 1,500 American workers will be laid off as the company plans to effectively idle a plant near Detroit, Michigan.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed victory after Amazon announced its intention to lease office space in Manhattan, news which followed the lawmaker’s efforts to prevent the company from putting its second headquarters in New York City, which would have created 25,000 jobs.
Nancy Pelosi said the overwhelmingly positive November jobs report showing record-high U.S. employment “offers little solace” to Americans.
U.S. border agencies apprehended 42,000 migrants at the southern border in October, down 14 percent from September, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told reporters at the White House.
The nation’s immigration law does not allow the large-scale award of work permits to the huge class of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) migrants, the nation’s solicitor general told the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The Department of Justice has quietly told the Supreme Court that it has no authority to issue work permits to DACA migrants and has effectively invited the court to block the annual award of more than one million work permits to migrants.
A Korean-born immigration lawyer faces years in jail for allegedly selling green cards and citizenship rights to more than 125 Koreans.
Indian H-1B contract workers pressed Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin to demand he support Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 bill, which rewards Indian graduates.
Agency officials have nudged down the renewal rate for foreign H-1B outsourcing workers, so providing some support for many American professionals who are being squeezed by the one-two punch of 800,000 H-1B visa workers and Indian discrimination.
Oil companies in New Mexico are raising more Americans’ wages because President Donald Trump has tightened immigration enforcement, says a complaint from Reuters news service.
President Donald Trump said in a Tuesday speech that while the economy is thriving overall in the U.S., it is thriving for one demographic in particular: young Americans.
Restaurant franchisee Larry Fox is pushing back against Democrats’ plan for $15 minimum wage, arguing that his employees earn up to $28 per hour.
Nearly 740,000 border crossers and illegal aliens are expected to be released into the interior of the United States this calendar year, new analysis projects.
George Will says the U.S. needs “as much immigration as the economy can take” to supply corporations with a never-ending flow of foreign workers and provide jobs to willing foreign nationals, no matter the cost to America’s working and middle class.
Optimism over the economy has boosted President Trump’s approval rating to the highest it has been in two years, according to a newly released Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey.
Beto O’Rourke’s immigration plan, which the presidential hopeful released Wednesday, would open the nation’s borders to apparently unlimited waves of unskilled needy migrants and would open the nation’s workplaces to cheap workers when companies fear Americans’ wages might rise.
One of the New York Time’s white-collar reporters joined with business executives to lament President Donald Trump’s pressure on employers to hire blue-collar Americans and pay them decent wages.
President Trump’s tight labor market has given American workers huge wage, workplace, and employment leverage over employers, the Wall Street Journal details in a new report.
President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is approving an additional 30,000 foreign workers whom businesses can import to the United States on H-2B visas to take blue-collar American jobs.
President Donald Trump’s administration has quietly reactivated a computer check that warns employers when their new employees are likely to be illegal immigrants.
President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy is boosting the marketplace clout of restaurant staff in Indiana, much to the distress of dining critic Liz Biro.
A plurality of Republican voters, more than 3-in-7, say illegal and legal immigration hurt the United States and make the country a “worse place to live,” a new poll finds.
During a rally in Lima, Ohio on Wednesday, President Trump called on the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors (GM) to work together immediately to reopen the corporation’s Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant.
A man who has been protesting for four months against multinational corporation General Motors’ (GM) decision to close four manufacturing plants in the U.S. this year says “the life” of the Lordstown, Ohio, community “is at stake.”
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says the “Masters of the Universe” want more legal immigration to the United States to further diminish the incomes of American working and middle-class families.
President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” policy initiative is making it harder for outsourcing firms like Infosys, Capgemini, and Cognizant to readily layoff American workers and give their jobs to imported foreign workers.
Silicon Valley’s business elites and donor-class billionaires are uniting with elected Republicans and Democrats to ensure that white-collar, middle-class American jobs are swiftly outsourced to mostly Indian and Chinese nationals.
President Trump on Tuesday suggested, again, at increasing legal immigration levels beyond an already historically high rate that would pit more foreign competition against American workers and further depress U.S. wages.
Executives at General Motors (GM) have started laying off American workers in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, and Texas, while the multinational corporation is reportedly expanding production in China and Mexico.