Posted on 02/21/2020 12:38:49 PM PST by Theoria
The Trump administration plans to allow 45,000 additional seasonal guest workers to return to the U.S. this summer, the highest number since the president took office, according to three administration officials.
The Department of Homeland Security plans to announce the additional seasonal-worker visas next week, an administration official said. They will become available in two waves: the first 20,000 will be immediately available, while employers can apply for the remainder for jobs beginning June 1.
It wasn’t clear whether the White House has fully signed off on the numbers, and an administration official cautioned they could change.
The additional visas are being made available ahead of the summer, when demand for short-term work is typically highest.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf “has made no decision yet on the issue,” a DHS spokesperson said. “Any numbers reported on at this time are being pushed to press by junior staff who are not privy to all of the discussions taking place.”
The seasonal worker program, known as the H-2B visa program, enables U.S. employers to hire as many as 66,000 foreign workers a year, with the allotments split evenly between the winter and summer seasons. Congress permits the Department of Homeland Security each year to raise that cap by as many as 64,000 additional visas.
In Mr. Trump’s first two years in office, DHS raised the cap by 15,000 visas to 81,000, and last year it raised the cap by 30,000 to 96,000.
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Multivariate. Go look it up. Or don't and continue to make a fool of yourself.
Can you just state what you think?
The correlation the paper found between child friendly tax incentives and the fertility rate obviously didn't bear out going forward.
Do you think it's because they didn't consider the other variables that affect fertility rate or because they considered and/or improperly weighted the wrong variables?
It's YOU who keep doing that, to which I keep pointing out that only a multivariate analysis is appropriate; the authors explicitly named several variables that they included (you can find that list at your link as well as mine).
Your link finds a weaker relationship when newer data is included, and somewhat weaker still when other child tax benefits are included. They conclude that the relationship is "not statistically significant" using a standard approach that treats 'no relationship' as the default (null hypothesis); without that debatable assumption, the actual size of the relationship they find is about a third what the earlier authors did - which would mean that an increase in tax value of child benefits of $440 would (all else held equal) get us at least back to replacement level, and $1800 at least back to our circa-1960 peak.
Very disappointing. Raise wages and pay Americans to work.
I have no issues with seasonal workers coming and going home....
Fixed it.
Sounds like you are Free Traitor™.
PAY MORE!!!!
Stuff you globalist BS. "Jobs Americans won't do for 3rd world wages" Bump.
There is a huge segment of the GOP who think wages for Americans can’t be driven low enough. They are like dog sh!t stuck to our shoes stinking up the place.
Fixed it.
The worst thing about last 30 years of globalism is the loss of respect for the US wage earner. Somehow they became the enemy.
They weren't offering enough money. Slavery died 150 years ago in case you didn't know.
Change your name to Hot Idiot.
What sets the price of anything? The law of supply and demand. You should read up on it you idiot.
Wow, let them. We are talking a mere pennies on the dollar.
Such an analysis is only as good as the variables considered.
We have proof that their projections were wildly off so I guess we can conclude they considered the wrong variables.
...the actual size of the relationship they find is about a third what the earlier authors did...
The important part of what they found was the tax incentives affected the timing of births but not the overall number in the medium to long term.
"...which would mean that an increase in tax value of child benefits of $440 would (all else held equal) get us at least back to replacement level, and $1800 at least back to our circa-1960 peak.
Wait. On the one hand you claim a multivariate analysis but the conclusions only hold if "all else held equal"?
Look, whatever they considered their conclusions simply don't hold in the real world.
We've provided much bigger tax incentives than they say are necessary and the rate hasn't improved.
LOL! You forgot your sarcasm tag...........
So $17.00 per hour for summer time employment in a manufacturing plant that also included overtime is considered "Slave Wages"..........?????
We know what side of the aisle you're coming from don't we?......................
Change your name to Hot Idiot.
Change YOUR name to Mr. Dunmbass..........
I only want to pay $2.00/pound for ground beef. For some reason I can't get any at the price.
dear clueless, you only get to set prices in Communist countries for labor. This is the USA pay more and you will get more people for the job. Try $20. Then $22. etc. Get it? Its called a FREE MARKET.
Apparently your "Free Market" isn't willing to pay those $20, then $22 for the jobs that you haven't mentioned....You just contradicted yourself. Nice try .......LOL!
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