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    Governments Offer Grants to Employers for Jobs, But H-1Bs Get Them

    Governments Offer Grants to Employers for Jobs,
    But H-1Bs Get Them


    By David North, June 15, 2016

    Here's a story about how H-1B employers rip off state and federal agencies by using grants and other programs designed to create jobs for residents to instead create jobs for H-1B workers.

    And the story is not coming to us from big media, but from smaller papers like the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer and the Danville (Va.) Register Bee.
    According to the Observer's Deon Roberts:

    As more companies turn to H-1B visa workers, North Carolina taxpayers are helping to foot the bill.

    Among those applying to use the visa workers are companies that have been awarded millions of dollars in state grants under agreements to create jobs in Charlotte and elsewhere.

    And it's legal for those companies to meet their job-creation requirements with foreign workers according to the North Carolina Department of Commerce.

    Note the use of the bland term "visa workers".

    State governments (and to a minor degree the feds) offer grants, guaranteed loans, and government contracting preferences to corporations who say they will produce new and additional jobs in particular areas, with a wide variety of different approaches and definitions.

    The North Carolina program — and you can congratulate some unknown lobbyists for this — does not mention temporary alien workers in the underlying law, so the corporations say that they deserve the subsidies and they have convinced the GOP state administration that this is appropriate.

    As a result, HCL Technologies, an IT services (i.e. outsourcing) firm headquartered in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, was awarded $19 million in state grants in 2014 to expand its hiring in Wake County (Raleigh), N.C. It then turned around and filed more than 2,000 applications for H-1Bs to work in the state.

    HCL is listed by an industry website, Myvisajobs, as the seventh-largest user of H-1B nonimmigrant workers in the country. The Indian outsourcing companies, as we have reported earlier, are de facto exempt from anti-discrimination laws, and routinely ignore American talent to hire employees from India, and, for the most part, young Indian males. HCL's hiring batting average is even more exclusionary than that of other, similar firms: 99.4 percent of their H-1B hires are fellow Indians.

    The Observer also reported that another employer, the New Jersey-based Spectra Group, secured an N.C. grant for $2.9 million and then started hiring H-1Bs.
    Meanwhile, let's consider depressed Danville, Va., a former furniture manufacturing town that sits just above the North Carolina-Virginia border. We reported earlier that a small-scale Indian outsourcing firm with a tie to Danville, and run by the indicted Raju Kasuri and his wife, was hauled into court for breaking the immigration laws and illicitly exploiting a large number of H-1 B workers.

    Kasuri managed to use Danville's down-at-the-heels status to get a subsidized loan and a small federal contract from the U.S. Small Business Administration's Historically Underutilized Business Zones program. He also secured a $500,000 grant from Virginia's Tobacco Commission, which encourages economic development in Southside Virginia, but later he had to return the money, with $75,000 still owing.

    So whether it is a global giant or a mom-and-pop conspiracy, H-1B employers of all sizes are taking advantage of government programs designed to help the resident unemployed.

    http://cis.org/north/governments-off...h-1bs-get-them

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    Record 94,708,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Drops in May

    By Susan Jones | June 3, 2016 | 8:49 AM EDT
    The unemployment rate in May dropped to 4.7 percent, BLS reported, less than half of its Obama-era high of 10 percent in October 2009. But the labor force participation rate has deteriorated over Obama's two terms.(AP File Photo)

    (CNSNews.com) - A record 94,708,000 Americans were not in the labor force in May -- 664,000 more than in April -- and the labor force participation rate dropped two-tenths of a point to 62.6 percent, near its 38-year low, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.

    When President Obama took office in January 2009, 80,529,000 Americans were not participating in the labor force; since then, 14,179,000 Americans have left the workforce -- some of them retiring and some just quitting because they can't find work.

    "By almost every economic measure, America is better off than when I came here at the beginning of my presidency," President Obama told the people of Elkhart, Indiana three days ago. "We cut unemployment in half, years before a lot of economists thought we would."

    The unemployment rate in May dropped to 4.7 percent, BLS reported, less than half of its Obama-era high of 10 percent in October 2009.

    But the labor force participation rate has deteriorated over Obama's two terms.

    When Obama took office in January 2009, shortly before the recession ended, the labor force participation rate was 65.7 percent. The following month, it reached an Obama-era high of 65.8 percent, and then it began its seven-year downward spiral, hitting 62.4 percent in September 2015, its lowest point since 1977.

    The 62.6 percent participation rate in May 2015 compares with 62.8 in April and 63.0 in March. (BLS noted that the rate has declined by 0.4 percentage point over the past two months, offsetting gains in the first quarter.)

    In May, according to the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nation’s civilian noninstitutional population, consisting of all people 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, reached 253,174,000. Of those, 158,466,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one.

    The 158,466,000 who participated in the labor force equaled 62.6 percent of the 253,174,000 civilian noninstitutional population.

    BLS points to retirements among the aging baby boom generation as a key factor affecting the labor force participation rate. But the weak job market has caused other Americans to give up job-hunting in favor of staying home or going back to school.

    BLS said the economy added a disappointing 38,000 jobs in May, well below analysts' estimates of 158,000. Over the past three months, job gains have averaged 116,000 per month.

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 5,923,000 people in May as "persons who currently want a job," up 130,000 from 5,793,000 in April.

    Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.3 percent), adult women (4.2 percent), Whites (4.1 percent), and Hispanics (5.6 percent) declined in May. The rates for teenagers (16.0 percent), Blacks (8.2 percent), and Asians (4.1 percent) showed little or no change.

    The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) declined by 178,000 to 1.9 million in May. These individuals accounted for 25.1 percent of the unemployed.

    The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (also referred to as involuntary part-time workers) increased by 468,000 to 6.4 million in May, after showing little movement since November. These individuals, who would have preferred full-time employment, were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.

    Job growth occurred in health care. Mining continued to lose jobs (-10,000), and a Verizon strike resulted in job losses in information.

    Health care added 46,000 jobs in May, with increases occurring in ambulatory health care services (+24,000), hospitals (+17,000), and nursing care facilities (+5,000). Over the year, health care employment has increased by 487,000.

    Within manufacturing, employment in durable goods declined by 18,000 in May, with job losses of 7,000 in machinery and 3,000 in furniture and related products.

    Employment in professional and business services changed little in May (+10,000), after increasing by 55,000 in April.

    Employment in other major industries, including construction, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, financial activities, leisure and hospitality, and government, changed little over the month.

    In May, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 5 cents to $25.59, following an increase of 9 cents in April. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 2.5 percent. Average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees increased by 3 cents to $21.49 in May.

    The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for March was revised from +208,000 to +186,000, and the change for April was revised from +160,000 to +123,000. With these revisions, employment gains in March and April combined were 59,000 less than previously reported. Over the past 3 months, job gains have averaged 116,000 per month.

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...ion-rate-drops

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