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Trump’s immigration crackdown has failed to increase number of U.S.-born workers, data shows

August 23, 2026 by AdminNo Comments

More than one year into the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, there’s little to suggest White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has achieved his goal of boosting the U.S.-born workforce by closing borders. A National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) policy brief published this month noted from February 2025 to February 2026, labor force participation for U.S.-born workers age 16 and older actually fell from 61.4% to 61%, citing jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That dip in the U.S.-born labor force—part of a larger labor market slowdown that saw just 181,000 jobs added to the U.S. economy in 2025—coincided with a swath of actions meant to curb immigration. This included roughly $170 billion in immigration enforcement funding, counting $75 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement through 2029, outlined in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). The crackdown appears to have had its intended effect in driving out immigrants and those considering coming to the U.S. The Brookings...

U.S. employers cut a surprising 92,000 jobs last month as unemployment rate rises to 4.4%

August 23, 2026 by AdminNo Comments

WASHINGTON — American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The unemployment rate blipped up to 4.4%. The Labor Department reported recently that hiring deteriorated from January, when companies, nonprofits and government agencies added a healthy 126,000 jobs. Economists had expected 60,000 new jobs in February. Revisions also cut 69,000 jobs from December and January payrolls. The job market had been expected to rebound this year from a lackluster 2025 when the economy, buffeted by President Donald Trump’s erratic tariff policies and the lingering effects of high interest rates, generated just 15,000 jobs a month. Construction companies cut 11,000 jobs last month, which likely reflects reflect frigid weather. And healthcare firms shed 28,000 jobs after a four-week strike by more than 30,000 nurses and other front-line workers at Kaiser Permanente in California and Hawaii. Health care has been one of the job market’s strong points. Factories cut 12,000 jobs and have now lost jobs for 14 of...

Americans are stuck in jobs they don’t want. Here’s why

August 23, 2026 by AdminNo Comments

Updated March 24, 2026, 5:16 p.m. ETAmerica is becoming a nation of pessimistic workers.For the first time in Gallup's tracking, more workers have a negative view of their prospects. Even as many measures show that the economy is relatively robust, more workers report struggling than thriving, according to a Gallup survey of U.S. workers conducted from Oct. 30 to Nov. 13. That’s a stunning reversal from 2022 and 2023, when more than half of employees had a rosier outlook. For its Life Evaluation Index, Gallup asked people to picture a ladder, with the lowest rung representing the worst possible life and the highest rung representing the best possible life. Those rungs are numbered 0 to 10.Gallup classified people who rate their current life a 7 or higher and their anticipated life in five years an 8 or higher as thriving, according to Jim Harter, Gallup's chief scientist for workplace management and well-being. Those who rate their current and anticipated life a 4 or...

North Korean workers are taking remote U.S. jobs. This company set a trap to expose one.

August 23, 2026 by AdminNo Comments

FBI officials say laptop farms are a crucial way North Korean IT teams trick U.S. companies into believing their remote workers are in the U.S. — providing both a physical address to mail laptops to and a U.S. internet connection. Once equipped with certain remote access software and tools, workers can log into those laptops remotely.So far, at least 10 alleged U.S.-based facilitators have been federally charged, including one active-duty member of the U.S. Army, for their alleged roles in hosting laptop farms, laundering payments and moving proceeds through shell companies. At least six other alleged U.S. facilitators have been identified in court documents but not named.In one instance, an American citizen, Kejia “Tony” Wang, traveled to China in 2023 to meet with co-conspirators and IT workers in Shenyang and Dandong, according to court documents. Laptops from over 100 U.S. companies, including a California-based defense contractor, were sent to Wang, who also set up shell companies to help route wages...

Jobs report shows strong rebound in March. Can 2026 grads get hired?

August 23, 2026 by AdminNo Comments

Updated April 3, 2026, 12:57 p.m. ETLast year, new college graduates wanted remote, high-paying jobs that aligned with their values. This year, they want a job. With 89% worrying AI could replace entry-level roles – up from 64% last year – 67% of graduates would now accept a lower-paying position if it offered more job security, Monster’s 2026 State of the Graduate Report found. “They do not want to be ‘the last one in, first one out’ of their new job,” Monster career expert Vicki Salemi said, adding young people are noticing waves of corporate layoffs. “They really want to feel like they’re going to be in a job for the long term.” A Challenger, Gray & Christmas report April 2 may have confirmed some of their fears. It found U.S. employers announced 60,620 layoffs in March – up 25% from February – and AI adoption was the primary reason behind a quarter of the cuts. Overall, the U.S. economy added 178,000 jobs in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated April 3 – a figure well above forecasters’ expectations. That’s up from a now-downwardly revised 133,000 lost in February. The return to work in March of about 31,000 striking Kaiser Permanente health...

Cooler US jobs keeps a lid on confidence | snaps

August 23, 2026 by AdminNo Comments

Looking towards Friday's March jobs report, the consensus is currently for a 65k increase in non-farm payrolls versus February's actual reading of -92,000 and January's +126k. I strongly suspect that January's number overstated the strength while February overstates the weakness. January's reading was taken in the best week for weather in the first two months of the year, so there were more construction workers doing a job than you would normally expect. Likewise, February was taken when the weather was very cold and there was lots of snow disruption – remember you are only calculated as being employed if you are actually working that day. There was also quite a bit of strike action going on that will reverse in the March figures (Kaiser Permanente's 31,000 staff in California and Hawaii have now returned to work). As such, the March figure will look stronger than the true situation. The main point I would make is that if the jobs market had...

March 2026 jobs report: US economy added 178K jobs amid uncertainty

August 23, 2026 by AdminNo Comments

Goldman Sachs Investment Strategy Group head of tactical asset allocation Brett Nelson analyzes market sell-off, inflation, A.I. disruption, and private credit worries on The Claman Countdown. The U.S. economy added jobs in March as the labor market rebounded after it unexpectedly shed jobs a month ago. What are the key findings of the March 2026 jobs report?The Labor Department on Friday reported that employers added 178,000 jobs in March. That figure was well above the expectations of economists polled by LSEG, who predicted a gain of 60,000 jobs. The unemployment rate declined slightly to 4.3%, which was slightly lower than the 4.4% projected by LSEG economists.Revisions were made to the payroll numbers for the prior two months, with January's report revised up by 34,000 jobs from a gain of 126,000 to 160,000; while February's report was revised down by 41,000 jobs from a loss of 92,000 to 133,000. Taken together, employment in January and February was 7,000 jobs lower than previously reported.MORE...

AI will affect more than half of all U.S. jobs, analysis finds

August 23, 2026 by AdminNo Comments

Artificial intelligence will dramatically change the nature of work, but stop short of replacing most employees, according to a recent analysis.Over the next three years, AI will "reshape" between 50% and 55% of U.S. jobs, Boston Consulting Group researchers estimated. "What people do in these jobs will be different, even if the job is still there," BCG managing director and senior partner Matthew Kropp told CBS News. At the same time, many jobs will be lost. BCG projects that 10% to 15% of U.S. jobs could be replaced by AI over the next five years. "There's almost a knee-jerk reaction — we'll cut jobs and have layoffs. It's indiscriminate, and that's harmful for society because we need people to have jobs, but also harmful for companies themselves," he said. "Yes, some will go away, but many jobs you'll be re-skilling, getting people to work in a different way, and you have to expend effort to do that."Better for society — and businessAs a result,...

Ag and Food Statistics: Charting the Essentials – Ag and Food Sectors and the Economy

August 23, 2026 by AdminNo Comments

According to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, agriculture, food, and related industries contributed roughly $1.537 trillion to U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023, a 5.5-percent share. The output of America’s farms contributed $222.3 billion of this sum—about 0.8 percent of U.S. GDP. The overall contribution of agriculture to GDP is larger than 0.8 percent because sectors related to agriculture rely on agricultural inputs to contribute added value to the economy. Sectors related to agriculture include food and beverage manufacturing; food and beverage stores; food services and eating/drinking places; textiles, apparel, and leather products; and forestry and fishing. Source link...

The Real Job Destruction from AI Is Hitting Before Careers Can Start

August 23, 2026 by AdminNo Comments

This commentary was originally published in Fortune. The views expressed are the author’s own.Two inconsistent phenomena seemingly can be true at the same time: AI is seen as disrupting jobs, and, yet, on the surface, it appears as if less is happening than meets the eye. Where you stand on AI depends on whom you talk to. Schools now feverishly compete to prepare graduates with simplistic educational remedies driven by competitive branding agendas, providing symbolic curriculum overhauls as recruiting and job-placement signals, regardless of whether such courses share a coherent body of core knowledge. With recent New York Federal Reserve Bank research showing that computer science majors now have more trouble finding jobs than humanities majors, the risk of misleading students with false curriculum certainties is genuine.As a core course developer at one of the world’s top three business schools confessed to us:“Our faculty are passionate, but there are two problems. One is that the AI models are developing so...