Career advice, platform updates, and commentary on the American job market.
Outsourcing giant Cognizant was found to have discriminated against non-South-Asian American workers for two decades using H-1B visa applications for jobs that reportedly didn't exist — a case study in how the loopholes actually work.
A closing reflection on the week's H-1B fee fight, AI-driven layoffs, and 2026 minimum-wage hikes — and what "value" means when every yardstick is moving at once.
EB-2 India is already marked "unavailable" for the rest of the fiscal year. EB-1 — the category for extraordinary-ability workers — may join it within weeks. These are the people the system is supposed to want most, stuck behind a numbers wall that has nothing to do with their qualifications.
More employers are shifting from performance-based raises to flat across-the-board increases — what happens to incentive when everyone gets the same raise.
CNN's reporting finds the hard data doesn't support an AI-driven jobs apocalypse — but that hasn't stopped companies from citing AI to justify layoffs anyway, unemployment ticking up to 4.3% along the way.
LAUSD enrollment fell from over 392,000 to 375,661 in a single year. The superintendent says it's "deeply connected" to what immigrant families are living through. Whatever you think about enforcement policy, this is a cost nobody campaigned on.
The ASSIMILATION Act would cap H-1B at 50,000 visas a year, require pay at 200% of the median wage, limit the visa to three non-renewable years, and kill the diversity lottery outright. It's the most aggressive bill I've covered this week — and the wage floor alone would end the outsourcing arbitrage cold.
The Aug 31 statutory deadline for the 2027 federal civilian pay raise lands as a freeze, while the military gets 5-7% and Democrats counter with 4.1%.
"Operation Catahoula Crunch" was announced as a hunt for violent offenders. On the ground, a lot of what's getting swept up looks like day laborers and tradesmen. The gap between the stated target and the actual result is the whole story.
Indeed's Q2 2026 vertical breakdown shows software, finance, and manufacturing still adding jobs while healthcare and retail postings slide.