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Tucker Carlson: H-1b Visa Program Continues to Displace American Workers

Is President Trump depending on the general lameness of the 2020 Democrats — the Cuba-loving commie and the senile gasbag — to assure his re-election?

Unfortunately for the American people, the president cannot honestly campaign on his record of immigration enforcement to attract voters, though he promised a lot of policing in the beginning of […]

Automation Endangers Future Jobs Economy, while Low-Skilled Foreigners Flood Open Border

Forbes provides a review of expert opinions about how the new automation/AI is going to roll out regarding the jobs economy over the next years. It notes the dire early predictions of mass unemployment, but tries to provide a balance with more upbeat forecasts of new jobs being created in the tech economy.

Forbes also […]

Pew Poll: Public Sees a More Troubled America in 2050

The Pew pollsters recently released a new survey about Americans’ dismal view of the nation in three decades: Looking to the Future, Public Sees America in Decline on Many Fronts (full paper in pdf).

Of particular interest here is the public’s increased awareness of the automation revolution while Washington remains on snooze mode about the […]

Tech Sector Booms, but Job Creation Is Falling

A few decades back, when the globalization honchos decided to pack up whole American industries and move them to cheap labor havens in Asia and Mexico, the oligarchs promised that US workers would be retrained for jobs in the new tech industry. Few at that time saw the rise of robots able to replace human […]

Employee Trains Robot Replacement Just by Working

Many Americans find it unfair when a capable citizen worker is forced to train a cheaper foreign replacement or else lose the company’s severance package.

But now in the automation age, just performing the job may define computer algorithms that enable a smart machine to replicate the tasks 24/7 with no breaks, sick leave or […]