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American Workers Displacement
By Joe Guzzardi on Monday, May 21st, 2012
The Bureau of Labor Statistics April jobs report is the latest evidence that, White House spin aside, the U.S. employment picture across all demographic spectrums is grim and getting grimmer. Last month, the economy produced a meager 115,000 jobs. And while some may believe the Obama administration’s fantasy that unemployment dropped from 8.2 to 8.1 percent, the facts tell a different story. Through March 2012, there were 142 million employed, 12.7 million unemployed, 7.7 million ...
The Crucial Hispanic Vote, Debunked
By Joe Guzzardi on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
After reading dozens of mainstream media newspaper and national magazine stories about the so-called “crucial” Latino November vote, I have sadly concluded that my journalism colleagues either can’t do simple math or have decided to forego fundamental research. The stories are the same. If presumptive GOP candidate Mitt Romney expects to persuade Hispanics to support his candidacy, then he needs to begin a significant outreach program effective immediately. On the other hand, if President Obama ...
On Earth Day, Family Planning is Key to a Green Society
By Joe Guzzardi on Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Going green is all the rage. “Consider the environment before printing out this email” is one of many cautionary notes office administrators sound to encourage their employees to respect our diminishing resources. During Earth Day, more than any other, Americans acknowledge the importance of recycling and using alternative public transportation. On college campuses, engaged students spread warnings about the negative long term consequences of excessive consumption. But preserving our precious space is a challenge that ...
Homeland Security Announces Latest Alien Forgive and Forget Program
By Joe Guzzardi on Friday, April 6th, 2012
Slow news days like weekends or holidays are the best time for the federal government to sneak in an announcement that would otherwise outrage the public. With immigration occupying the front and center stage, a pro-illegal alien policy decision that would rile up enforcement-minded citizens is best done in the cloak of darkness. In its non-stop effort to eviscerate immigration laws, the Department of Homeland Security operating with President Obama’s blessing posted an item in ...
California’s Bullet Train a High Speed Trip to Disaster
By Joe Guzzardi on Thursday, April 5th, 2012
The chaos engulfing California’s proposed bullet train may have reached an intensity that will doom the project before it starts. In yet another revision of cost estimates and planning, the California High-Speed Rail Authority recently announced a cost reduction from $98 to $68 billion that would be achieved by connecting the train’s route to existing lines on the outskirts of Los Angeles and the Bay Area. The first segment would be expanded to 300 miles ...
Evidence That Higher Immigration Fuels Long Term Population Growth
By Joe Guzzardi on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
According to a recent Migratory Policy Institute report, 24 percent of the 70.6 million children living in the United States in 2010 have at least one immigrant parent. The total reflects the overall increase in immigration into the United States but reveals almost nothing about the long term consequences of adding to population growth through an expansive federal immigration policy and lax border enforcement. More worrisome is that the report didn’t mention how many of ...
The Untold Story Behind the February Jobs Report
By Joe Guzzardi on Monday, March 19th, 2012
With its typical fanfare, the White House announced that the economy created 227,000 jobs in February. In what’s best described as a campaign speech for his boss, White House economic advisor Alan Kreuger hailed the news as evidence that the Obama administration’s jobs strategy is successful. A close analysis of February’s jobs report exposes a less encouraging picture. The number of unemployed Americans and the unemployment rate remained unchanged from January at, respectively, 12.8 million ...
By Early Spring, This Year’s Summer Jobs for College Kids Are Gone
By Joe Guzzardi on Monday, March 12th, 2012
Although it seems like only yesterday, six months have passed since last August when foreign-born student workers exposed the Hershey Company’s abuse of the State Department’s Summer Work Travel (SWT) program. College students from Turkey, Moldova and China as well as other nations came at their own expense to work at Hershey allegedly to promote “lasting and meaningful relationships” with their American peers. In reality, SWT turned out to be just another cheap labor program ...
White House Moves to Eliminate Funding For Immigration Enforcement
By Joe Guzzardi on Thursday, March 1st, 2012
To understand how little interest the White House has in enforcing immigration law, consider this figure: $5.4 million. That’s the sum that the Department of Homeland Security wants to gut from the 2013 federal budget that last year went to participants in the 287 (g) program. Broadly defined, 287 (g) allows police jurisdictions in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security to detain and process illegal aliens as if they were deputized ICE agents. President ...
Why Import Engineers?
By Joe Guzzardi on Monday, February 13th, 2012
Earlier this week, a live online video chat featured President Obama and Jennifer Weddel, the wife of an unemployed engineer whose husband has been out of a job for three years. Weddel asked the president: “Why does the government continue to extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?” Caught off guard, Obama tried to deflect Weddel’s argument by inquiring what type of engineer her husband is. ...