Career advice, platform updates, and commentary on the American job market.
A new White House release credits mass deportation policy with 2 million more native-born Americans employed and falling home prices — figures worth examining on their own terms.
The new $100,000 H-1B fee sounds like a serious deterrent, but it only applies to new cap-subject filings for workers abroad — leaving renewals, existing visa holders, and national-interest waivers untouched, and early collection data suggests employers are barely paying it.
An opinion piece on America's bifurcated labor market argues that protections for credentialed professionals coexist with an off-the-books workforce that keeps low-wage jobs cheap — leaving working-class Americans squeezed from both directions.
A White House fact sheet lays out a new $100,000 payment requirement for H-1B petitions, along with data showing the visa's share of IT work has more than doubled since 2003 — while CS grads face unemployment rates above the national average.
A new report alleges roughly 100,000 counterfeit Indian degree certificates and a former U.S. consular officer's claim that 80-90% of the H-1B applications she reviewed were fraudulent - here's why that matters for American tech workers.