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The H-1B visa program, designed to permit the temporary hiring of specialized foreign workers in fields like technology and healthcare, has recently become the focal point of a contentious debate. While the H-1B visa serves as a critical bridge for talent in addressing labor shortages, particularly within the STEM sectors, it has also been a…
Online posts claim Tyson Foods plans to hire 52,000 migrants after laying off 1,200 American workers at an Iowa factory. This is misleading; the food processing firm expects to make thousands of hires to replace departing workers, with authorized refugees being among new staff in an industry that has high turnover.
Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world. That momentum picked up aggressively over the past year. About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. And even before that, by the middle of 2022, the forei
Although Congress is failing to pass laws to restrict the number of migrants arriving in the United States, a majority of Americans -- about 6 in 10 -- believe there's an immigration crisis along the Mexico-U.S. border.
US regulators are cracking down on business practices that mean workers are not paid their due, a problem exacerbated in building industry by use of labor broker system