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Biden quietly reversed Trump’s ban on worker visas. Will it help or hurt the U.S. economy? By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
Published: April 19, 2021, 6:00am
Share: Workers put the framing up on new single family luxury homes in Porter Ranch, Los Angeles, California on October 9, 2014. Construction is among the industries that have made significant use of the H-2B guest worker program. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
WASHINGTON President Biden has quietly relaxed one of former President Trump’s signature immigration bans against foreign workers with skills that U.S. employers say they cannot find in the domestic labor market.
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Unlike other speakers at this week s West Des Moines minority business summit, Brandon Copeland comes from a line of work in which the bosses inspect new employees in their underwear.
Managers demand the unvarnished truth. How the fat jiggles. How the muscles tense. How effectively, when that fat and those muscles move at full velocity for four to six seconds, the prospective employee can assault the ribs of another company s employee. I use my body to make money, Copeland, 29, told the Des Moines Register, pausing for a beat. I sound like a stripper.
But Copeland is not a stripper no matter how well he controls his body. He s an eight-year NFL veteran.
Assessing the outsize impact of immigrant entrepreneurs in Minnesota.
What comes to mind when you hear the word “entrepreneur”? For many, that label conjures a vision of someone relatively young (mid-30s to mid-40s), male, white, and high-tech. Such as Elon Musk, who happens to be an immigrant from South Africa via Canada.
Musk is the person who rebuilt a former California GM plant into a Tesla plant in 2017, spawning more than 50,000 jobs while injecting $4.1 billion into California’s economy in that year alone. Musk not a Tesla founder but an immigrant Series A investor placed his PayPal earnings in an invention that was, at the time, still questionable: electric cars.
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