I send one to opinion page editor Andre Jackson periodically – he stopped replying or publishing. Here is latest attempt.

Meet the AJC leadership team as of today:

US economy will soon start losing 175,000 jobs a month, Bank of America warns New YorkCNN Business, October 10, 2022)

The Federal Reserve’s fight to squash inflation will cause the US economy to start losing tens of thousands of jobs a month beginning early next year, Bank of America warns.

Although the jobs market remained surprisingly strong in September, the Fed is working hard to change that by aggressively raising interest rates to ease demand for everything from cars and homes to appliances.

The pace of job growth is expected to be roughly cut in half during the fourth quarter of this year, Bank of America told clients in a report Friday. Here.

* Better.com planning fourth layoff in less than 9 months (Techcrunch.com August 25, 2022)

It is unclear at this time how many people in total will be laid off in this latest round, but one impacted worker estimated that it would be “at least 250 or more” and that they “will all be from the U.S. side.” Another source said the company seemed to be “going for higher corporate salaries.” And: “In less than nine months, the company has let go thousands of workers, seen numerous senior executives step down and delayed a SPAC that it recently said it was still working toward.”   Here.

* Major Tech Companies Are Freezing Hiring And Rescinding Job Offers. What You Need To Know (Forbes, August 8, 2022)

“Nicole López-Conti interviewed with a mid-sized tech company in May. After meeting seven staff members, completing three rounds of interviews, submitting work samples and doing a project, the company informed her it was no longer hiring for the role.

“It’s truly been a disappointing and bizarre interaction from the beginning,” she says. López-Conti estimates she spent about 16 hours preparing and participating in the interview process.

Despite reports of nationwide job growth, López-Conti isn’t the only applicant who’s hit a dead-end. The tech industry has seen a wave of hiring freezes in the past few months, with several large companies citing concerns over an economic downturn.

According to Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks layoffs in the tech industry, more than 65,900 tech employees have lost their jobs this year…. More here.

* Why are Atlanta tech companies laying off employees?

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, is preparing employees for “the worst downturn that we’ve seen in recent history,” according to The New York Times. Netflix Inc. is cutting hundreds of jobs. Carvana cut 2,500 employees from its payroll.

July 11, 2022

bizjournals.com

* Mass immigration will not solve inflation or labor market issues

There are 14 million available American workers to fill 11 million job vacancies

July 13, 2022

Washington Times

* Study: Millions of Americans Still on Job Market Sidelines, Weighed Down by Mass Immigration

July 11, 2022

The rise of Americans on the job market sidelines coincides with record-setting levels of illegal and legal immigration to the U.S. — adding immense foreign competition against employable Americans.

Breitbart

* Fact: “In fiscal year 2021, the top six H-1B visa employers — Cognizant, Amazon, Tata Consulting Services, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — sought to outsource nearly 57,000 American tech jobs to foreign H-1B visa workers primarily from India and China.”

* More Workers than Ever Are on the Sidelines
Unemployment rate doesn’t include those
who’ve dropped out of the job market  (CIS)

Townhall

July 7, 2022

William Davis

Ten years ago last month, President Barack Obama launched the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a benefits program for illegal aliens who were brought to the U.S. as minors. A decade later, the damage DACA has done to the country and the rule of law is clear.

The DACA program currently shields over 800,000 illegal aliens and rewards them with perks typically reserved for American citizens, including driver’s licenses and social security numbers. The creation of DACA further polarized the immigration debate in the U.S., and started an anti-borders project that threatens to bring the U.S. to its knees.

Right now, America is dealing with a crisis of historic proportions on our border. In the first year of Joe Biden’s administration, the U.S. allowed roughly one million illegal aliens to cross our border at a taxpayer expense of $10 billion, according to an analysis from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. During that time period, we’ve seen a record surge in fentanyl crossing the border, which has killed tens of thousands of Americans, as well as a record number of migrant deaths. All of this would have been unthinkable ten years ago, and all of it became possible because of the slippery slope of lawlessness the country has been riding since the creation of DACA.

“I just have to continue to say this notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true,” Obama said at the time.

Obama had long advocated for amnesty, but appeared to understand that he didn’t have the authority to do so by executive fiat. That all changed with DACA, and led to the creation of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) just two years later. DAPA extended the legal protections and benefits in DACA to certain parents of illegal aliens. DAPA and DACA served as a one-two punch against the rule of law, rewarding millions of illegal aliens with amnesty without an act of Congress.

Around that same time period, the number of cities and counties designating themselves as sanctuaries for illegal aliens exploded. While sanctuary cities existed long before 2014, a map of sanctuary counties shows that the number of sanctuaries spiked in 2014, and continued to increase during the Trump Administration as liberal jurisdictions ferociously pushed back against the administration’s enforcement policies…

Read the rest here.