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.
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.
A practical breakdown of the 60-day H-1B grace period after a layoff — what it actually covers, what your employer owes you, and why this system leaves visa holders at the mercy of their sponsor even after they've been cut loose.
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.
Microsoft laid off 1,600 Xbox employees while remaining the sixth-largest H-1B sponsor in the country, and lawmakers on both sides are finally asking why.
Microsoft laid off 4,800 workers and gutted a third of Xbox's division while continuing to rank among the country's top H-1B sponsors and pouring billions into AI — a pattern immigration attorneys say is legal but hard to defend.
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.
Unemployment among recent college graduates has climbed to roughly 5.7%, well above the national rate of 4.3%, as entry-level hiring dries up and young Americans grow visibly more pessimistic about the job market.
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.
Tech layoffs in 2026 blew past 2025's full-year total four months early, with more than 250 companies cutting jobs and the industry on pace to top a million layoffs since 2022 — and AI is the excuse of choice.