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Date November 22, 2021

Black American Agriculture Workers Being Displaced in the Mississippi Delta

New York Times correspondent Miriam Jordan wrote “Black Farmworkers Say They Lost Jobs to Foreigners Who Were Paid More,” about longtime field laborer Richard Strong and five other displaced black farmworkers in the Mississippi Delta {text} against Pitts Farm Partnership (PFP) claiming “that the new foreign workers (mostly white South African farmers on H-2A visas) … Continued

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Date November 19, 2021

House Passes Largest Amnesty in History

After several failed attempts, House Democrats finally completed the first step to passing what could be the largest illegal alien amnesty in U.S. history this morning by approving H.R. 5376, Pres. Biden’s Build Back Better legislation. Click here to read all the details in the House version of H.R. 5376. In summary, the bill would: … Continued

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Date November 12, 2021

Unraveling the Not So Rosy October Jobs Report

Analysts across the board lauded the better than expected “Bureau of Labor Statistics” October jobs report that was released last week. That report, showing 531,000 job additions (when 450,000 job gains were predicted) also included some upward revisions to prior months, after very disappointing August and September job numbers. According to many, this upswing in … Continued

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Date November 12, 2021

Unraveling the Not So Rosy October Jobs Report

Analysts across the board lauded the better than expected “Bureau of Labor Statistics” October jobs report that was released last week. That report, showing 531,000 job additions (when 450,000 job gains were predicted) also included some upward revisions to prior months, after very disappointing August and September job numbers. According to many, this upswing in … Continued

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Date November 10, 2021

How Many Shipping Containers Does it Take to Make America Great?

A friend sent me this video from The Wall Street Journal with a note: “The scale is staggering … gives one a sense of what having a population of 330 million consumers implies.” The often-mesmerizing video does bring to mind questions about domestic production, trade policy, and personal consumption (is all of my stuff really … Continued

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Date November 10, 2021

How Many Shipping Containers Does it Take to Make America Great?

A friend sent me this video from The Wall Street Journal with a note: “The scale is staggering … gives one a sense of what having a population of 330 million consumers implies.” The often-mesmerizing video does bring to mind questions about domestic production, trade policy, and personal consumption (is all of my stuff really … Continued

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Date November 8, 2021

Budget Reconciliation Amnesty: Where it Stands

Once again, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi planned a vote on the Democrats’ $1.75 trillion budget reconciliation amnesty bill on Friday only to rescind the vote hours later. However, the threat of Congress passing what could become the largest illegal alien amnesty in U.S. history is still very much alive. One significant difference from Friday’s rescinded … Continued

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Date November 3, 2021

House Set to Repeat History of Immigration Injustices

We don’t like to say this much, but it has long been the practice of many restaurants to hire staff as inexpensively as possible and provide them with the fewest benefits that they can, often by restricting their hours so they don’t qualify as full-time employees….I guess that can be a good business plan when … Continued

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Date November 2, 2021

Topics We’re Supposed to Avoid

Southwest border encounters are at an all-time high, interior enforcement is at a ten-year low, illegal presence in the United States is no longer enough to warrant removal, and new restrictions on workplace enforcement against illegal workers are going into effect. David Shor has advice for Democrats: Don’t talk about it. The data scientist isn’t … Continued

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