American Workers ‘Roadkill’ for Lobbyists, Immigration Lawyers by Wolf Richter • Feb 7, 2015 • 28 Comments Replaced by H-1B worker? Congress caved to corporate search for cheap labor.
In Search of Cheap Labor in Tech: Behind the H1-B Visa Scenes by Wolf Richter • Feb 5, 2015 • 49 Comments “They’re bringing in people with a couple of years’ experience to replace us, and we have to train them.”
Billionaire’s Dream: Uber’s New American Economy by Larry Kummer • Jan 23, 2015 • 14 Comments Who gets the crumbs in the ironically named “sharing economy”?
This Chart Shows How The Biggest Problem in the Jobs ‘Recovery’ Keeps Getting Worse (by the Atlanta Fed!) by Wolf Richter • Nov 10, 2014 • 7 Comments But it performs miracles on corporate profits.
Layoffs Explode In America’s Big Old Tech Companies by Wolf Richter • Nov 7, 2014 • 11 Comments Job cut announcements in tech doubled from a year ago. Worst year since 2009.
More QE? These Charts Show the Pauperization of Workers in the UK and America since 2008 by Wolf Richter • Oct 18, 2014 • 25 Comments The designated losers of monetary policy. There are a lot of them.
The Structural Jobs Fiasco No One Knows How to Deal with by Wolf Richter • Oct 8, 2014 • 38 Comments Humans need not apply.
CEOs Darken Outlook, Slash Hiring and Cap-Ex Plans – Hope Now Focused on Share Buybacks (which just Plunged) by Wolf Richter • Sep 17, 2014 • 5 Comments The word “gloomier” inconveniently shows up to describe CEOs’ outlook.
STILL 1.4 Million Fewer Full-Time Jobs than in 2008 by Lee Adler • Sep 8, 2014 • 3 Comments The Fed’s policies have rewarded financial engineering at the expense of job creation.
You Must Have a Job to Get a Job by WOLF STREET Reader • Sep 8, 2014 • 13 Comments Reader speaks up: “Those 2 years of unemployment were the darkest moments of my life.”
