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He signed that bill into law in 2019 requiring back pay for federal workers during lapses. He doesn’t even know that law exists or that he signed it. OMB is scrubbing all references to it in their shutdown guidance documents. — Camille MacKenzie (@CamRMacKenzie) October 7, 2025 Collins: So if your position is what they …
America does not need more visas for people from India. Perhaps no form of legal immigration has so displaced American workers as those from India. Enough already. We’re full. Let’s finally put our own people first. https://t.co/wcOsorvZFE — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 1, 2025 South Koreans chanting “we are Charlie Kirk”.. This is wild.. 👀 …
The United States is falling behind in manufacturing. We have less than a third as many manufacturing robots per 10,000 factory workers than South Korea. byu/MajesticBread9147 inEconomyCharts My chart is per 10,000 manufacturing workers so it isn’t just a chart of the largest manufacturing industries h/t MajesticBread9147
Department heads permanently firing federal workers as soon as the Government shuts down. https://t.co/WVZbjr6xOs pic.twitter.com/Ev58sjcOIV — Paul (@WomanDefiner) October 1, 2025 Here is the trap Democrats are walking into with the shutdown. OMB can reduce discretionary agencies in force, i.e., instead of layoffs, they can fire and reduce the workforce. When the agencies are funded …
The largest walkout in U.S. government history is happening right now, and most people have no idea what it means. More than 100,000 federal workers are resigning this week, not from burnout or scandal, but because the Trump administration designed it that way. The trigger was an email from the Office of Personnel Management titled …
oh my god lol — Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday pic.twitter.com/mjuQUELCJ4 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2025 🔥 The UN sabotaged Trump They stopped the escalator the moment he & the First Lady stepped up to it & the teleprompter stopped working as soon as …
The second the U.S. went off the Gold Standard, workers have gotten their wealth stolen from them via suppressed wage growth byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts Home prices need to fall -40% or incomes need to rise +60% just to return the housing market to 2019 levels. Generational crisis. pic.twitter.com/wFkvoKjUhL — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) September 22, 2025
Proof that the current H1B program is about cheap labor, not skilled labor? Almost 73% of H1B holders are Indian. Only 1% are Canadian. 0.9% are from South Korea. Companies aren't bringing in people to do the job better, they're bringing in people to do the job cheaper. https://t.co/4el1AkwLRv — Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) September 20, …
The chart below shows that labor’s share and capacity utilization often move in opposite directions because higher utilization today tends to amplify capital’s pricing power rather than labor’s bargaining leverage. In the late 1990s, utilization pushed above 83% while labor’s share drifted down, as globalization and lean supply chains let businesses capture demand without raising …
by Michael “Efficiency” has become one of the hottest trends in the tech industry, and that is really bad news for American workers, because one of the best ways to become “more efficient” is to get rid of low-performing employees. Just about every time a big tech company fires a bunch of workers, the stock price …
In the days following the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, numerous workers have been fired for their comments on his death, among them MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd. In Southern California, an employee at the Las Virgenes Unified School District in Calabasas has been placed on administrative leave after a social media post was made …
by Michael When two-thirds of all the workers in your entire country are just barely scraping by from month to month, you have got a major crisis on your hands. For a long time, our standard of living has been going down and the middle class has been shrinking. But in recent years, those two …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjUafsEuUVg The job market in 2025 is harsher than many imagined, with layoffs continuing to sweep through industries and leaving workers in limbo. Companies that once promised stability are now trimming staff, freezing hiring, and leaning heavily on automation and contract work. This has left millions of people struggling to find steady jobs, while those …
US Steel is shuttering production at a mill in November, but its hundreds of workers will keep their jobs – for now – thanks to an agreement the company reached with the Trump administration. US Steel will stop producing steel at its Granite City, Illinois, mill at the end of October, but the 800 workers …
History shows (12 out of 12 times since 1947) when unemployment rises, it rises hard and it rises fast. This time will not be different. pic.twitter.com/aTzJEzO9He — Bob Hyneman (@BobhynemanUSA) September 6, 2025
https://youtu.be/4R6pML9j8tw Immigration authorities raided a warehouse last Wednesday in Edison, New Jersey, arresting 29 undocumented workers and injuring three. Both Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) participated in the raid. At 10 a.m., about 20 masked and armed agents stormed Smart Logistics, a CBP-bonded facility that serves Amazon, UPS, and …
The Guardian: "Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime on many fronts. Double-tap strike suggests killing of civilians, rescue workers and journalists deliberate and not a mistake." 20+ killed including 5 journalists. They can kill specific people with Palantir drones, so why? byu/megapwn1 inconspiracy Video of the Nasser hospital strike: “Israeli …
Factories are shutting. Shops are closing. Workers are walking out under stress that has nowhere to go. The air smells of fear and exhaustion. Bank accounts are shrinking while bills climb. The institutions meant to protect us are either blind or complicit. Every metric screams warning. Every statistic is a cry ignored. The economy is …
Working Americans have been in depression since 2008. They bailed out the establishment by stealing YOUR quality of life. It doesn't just "feel" worse, it IS worse. pic.twitter.com/oWLyAme7Nv — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) August 23, 2025 Insane chart: Boomers for the win. Sickening https://t.co/8Ldcixm4OL — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 24, 2025 What bubble? 😳 pic.twitter.com/f3Lmfvz5t0 — …
In France, hiring is priced like a luxury good. To put €39,000 in a worker’s pocket, an employer may need to spend close to €95,000. That’s not a typo—it’s the weight of payroll charges that double the real cost of a job. iCalculator shows that a gross salary of €95,000 shrinks to about €48,000 net …
Unemployment claims are climbing fastest for higher-income households. If white-collar stress builds, markets should brace for slower discretionary spending, a key driver for growth stocks tied to consumer demand. pic.twitter.com/uKpZZ4sNzN — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) August 16, 2025 A Bank of America Institute report shows higher-income households claiming unemployment benefits spiked between February and …
Workers at Boeing’s defense plant in St. Louis just said no to a four-year contract. The union plans to strike starting at midnight Monday if nothing changes. Tom Boelling from the union said, “IAM District 837 members deserve a contract that reflects their skill, dedication, and the critical role they play in our nation’s defense.” …
According to a new op-ed from the Center for Immigration Studies, nearly 1 million illegals have self-deported under Trump’s renewed enforcement push, aided by cash incentives and digital check-ins. The report ties this exodus to a measurable increase in average wages, particularly in lower-skilled sectors. via CIS: The Washington Post claims “a million foreign-born workers …
BREAKING: Per federal law enforcement sources, the two SoCal medical workers seen in a viral video physically blocking an ICE agent from arresting a Honduran illegal ali*n who had fled into their surgery center in Ontario, CA have both been charged federally & the male was arrested earlier this morning. The female remains at large …
The State Department has disclosed that 90% of funds allocated through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) failed to reach their intended recipients. The revelation came during a July 2 briefing, where spokesperson Tammy Bruce stated that “the amount of fraud is mind-boggling.” The figure refers to foreign aid disbursed over multiple years, much …
As the technology sector faces a wave of layoffs, demand for H-1B visas, which enable U.S. companies to employ skilled foreign professionals in specialized roles, continues unabated. Microsoft, a dominant force in the industry, is reportedly set to reduce its U.S. workforce by approximately 9,000 jobs in 2025, following an earlier elimination of over 6,000 positions in …
by Michael Why are thousands of Walmart workers suddenly “vanishing” all over the nation? And why are vast numbers of agricultural workers suddenly no longer showing up for work? What I am about to share with you is extremely alarming. During the “open border years”, our economy became extremely dependent on very cheap migrant labor. …
Yep pic.twitter.com/Ie0F9P4qGT — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 26, 2025 The welfare state is supposed to redistribute funds from times of plenty to times of need, as well as from rich to poor. That is why the nation’s most generous publicly financed benefits are reserved for seniors, who have less capacity to earn money and who …
Tech layoffs explode but H-1B demand surges As tech layoffs surge, H-1B demand hasn’t slowed down. Microsoft just cut thousands of American workers…yet they’ve already requested 14,181 more H-1B workers this year, and it’s only Q2. If AI is the reason Americans are being let go, why are companies still asking for… pic.twitter.com/pK44zRVJsj — Alb …
