Keep America At Work - We are not out of work because the economy is bad, the economy is bad because we are out of work.

Day 3 and zero response from @datarepublican

Thats ok, it gives me time to come up with the evidence.

The shotgun blast reverberated across the parking garage of Bank of America’s Concord Technology Center in the Bay Area suburb of Walnut Creek, California.

In the front seat of a pickup truck sat the lifeless body of Kevin Flanagan beside a 12-gauge Remington. Behind him were boxes of his personal effects from his office at Bank of America, where the programmer had worked for nearly a decade.

In the months leading up to his 2003 suicide, Bank of America had forced Flanagan and his colleagues to train their foreign replacements before laying them off. These transplants entered the United States on the H-1B worker visa. After months of the humiliation of having to train his replacement, a broken Flanagan climbed into his truck and shot himself in the head the day Bank of America let him go. “Kevin losing his job with Bank of America was the defining event in his decision to end his life,” said Tom Flanagan, his father.

https://americanmind.org/salvo/dont-bother-learning-to-code/

Poor guy gave his life so that the CEO could get paid this yearly.

I’ve got to go.

I have about 9,000 publicly traded companies to expose so that the Americans who can’t find good paying jobs will be able to put a name to what happened to them.

I have been told the H4-EAD and L2-EAD are a major cause why we can’t find work

But I found this today and now realize they are not.

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Day 2 and zero response from @datarepublican

Yes, I challenged her to a data duel.

https://keepamericaatwork.com/2025/02/18/president-trump-im-challenging-elon-musks-data_republican-team-member-to-a-data-duel-because-you-are-not-standing-up-for-american-workers/

Here they are firing people left and right to cut payroll at government agencies without even knowing if those jobs are needed by the local community.

President Trump isn’t going to stand up for those people which is shameful.

He wants to be the man that forces the government workers to get real jobs, but those of us desperately looking for real jobs know they do not exist because Americans are no longer welcome in our skilled jobs at large corporations and government agencies.

Somebody has to find a way to expose the truth about jobs.

https://guestworkervisas.com/bigpicture.php

I would rather it be you instead of me, but you’re not doing your part, so I guess I’m the somebody.

I was asked to comment on this debate regarding the accuracy of the numbers.

https://x.com/CiVLdotcom/status/1891909969416433777

Out of the gate Eduardo Neret was obvious that he had done his homework, but he never brought up the subject of how many jobs we create each year and how many nonimmigrant guest workers we import each year which I believe is what is needed to win this war, specifically because most Americans never see themselves working in those jobs, so they have no bearing on their future.

In response Anurag Singh comes out with inaccurate information stating that America brings in 1 million immigrants per year.

https://guestworkervisas.com/visadisplay.php

His next statement was where do these immigrants come from and he stated that India is a very small percentage.

Problem is, if we look at this document, we find that India for the H-1B visa is substantially more than mexico.

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Non-Immigrant-Statistics/NIVDetailTables/FY23NIVDetailTable.pdf

Personally I would rank my site guestworkervisas.com #1, #2 Eduardo Neret the winner although he left out a very important item, and #3 Anurag Singh (by the way, even though he lists a twitter profile, none seem to exist).

Let me show you the reality and why you as an American, can’t find work.

Presidents, CEO’s and Economists Lie Through Their Teeth About Job Growth, especially in the so called STEM arena.

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics release an article about the fastest growing industry sector between 2023 and 2033 which is Professional, Scientific and Technical Services.

https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2025/article/fastest-growing-industry-sector.htm

It is projected to increase by 10.5 percent.

So, what were we in 2023?

10,694,200 Times 10.5 percent is 11,817,091

So in 10 years we are going to have created 112,289 jobs per year.

Anybody that follows my work knows that about 70% of all H-1B applications are for these technical jobs.

So how many applications and approvals do we have per year?

In 2023 we had 820,559 H-1B applications and 265,777 initial and continuing approvals.

And we are going to create 112,289 jobs per year?

It doesn’t compute but Elon Musk, DOGE and datarepublican say there are plenty of jobs out there.

Are you going to believe what you see and experience in the job market, or the propaganda that the BLS puts out and Elon will censor you to the death if you try and say otherwise?

President Trump, I’m challenging Elon Musks data_republican team member to a data duel because you are not standing up for American Workers.

This is day 1.

I saw this yesterday and immediately saw red.

This post is intended to everyone who is posting a tragic story about government layoffs. This platform is melting down with people losing their minds this past weekend. It’s not fair; it’s life changing; it’s a horrible position to be in. I get all that, and I truly am sorry for your individual circumstances. But @ElonMusk and @DOGE are trying to save our country. You will land on your feet, but our nation is in peril. If our national predictment is not fixed, we will all go down, and your situation will be worse than a job loss. Give DOGE a chance and stop whining! I, for one, am sick of reading about it.

https://x.com/data_republican/status/1891493426497310792

They naively assume these folks will be able to find other jobs, but as I have shown here many times, this will not happen because we have more workers than we do jobs, and the nonimmigrant guest workers are hired before our fellow American citizens.

On this spreadsheet we total up all of the new jobs that were created between 1997 and present day.

The total was 35,573,000 new jobs.

At this point, these jobs are empty because we have not selected anybody to fill them.

Now we are going to import 25,997,659 nonimmigrant guest workers from other countries.

And we are going to give them jobs ahead of Americans.

Even though millions of Americans have not yet got jobs from 1997 to present day, we are going to pick 9,575,341 of them to give jobs to.

What about the high school graduates, college graduates, or unemployed.

Tough luck is what those fighting to import more guest workers at americans expense will say.

President Trump, I can prove that we don’t have enough jobs.

Can Elon’s team prove that we do have enough jobs?

Today is day 1.

I will address this challenge to a data duel with datarepublican for as many days as it takes for you to answer this.

Respectfully,

Virgil

A navy veteran that hasn’t been able to find steady software work in two decades because of the things I show here.

After studying datarepublican today, I wish it were someone else on the other end, but when she chooses to fire people that have no input into whatever happens at the top, just because they are expendable, well I say bullshit simply because we are finding no jobs out there unless you want minimum wage jobs that don’t provide a living wage.

Why are American Workers Forced To Pay To Import NonImmigrant Guest Workers?

In December of 2023 we had 156,930,000 working in our total nonfarm payroll workforce.

In January of 1997 we had 121,357,000 working in our total nonfarm payroll workforce.

This is a gain of 35,573,000 new jobs.

Between 1997 and 2023 we imported 25,997,659 nonimmigrant workers from other countries to take our jobs.

This means American Citizens received 9,575,341 of those jobs.

Is it any wonder you can’t find good paying work, or almost any job anymore?

F1, H1B, H2A, H2B, H4, L1, L2, O1 and TN are work visas used to import workers to take jobs.

This is only a small portion of the actual visas issued to import nonimmigrant guest workers each year.

We suspect many more are work visas, or being utilized to import nonimmigrant guest workers under the radar since there is so much focus on the H-1B visa.

Are you beginning to understand why you can’t find work?

Good paying work that will let you pay your bills and maybe have a little left over?

Questions on the Employed Totals at Guest Worker Visas

Yesterday somebody contacted me and said the employed total for 2023 was wrong, so I dug into it, and this is what I found.

Updated 16 Feb 2025

Sent this email after downloading files again.

I thought I should alert you to this after downloading all data again on 16 Feb 2025.

Fred does not get revised.

Your own SA and NSA data on your website does not get revised.

There is no way to properly update the data without blindly following what you have stated here.

Two files I downloaded can be seen here.

SeriesReport-20250216135727_bb9f77

SeriesReport-20250216135722_8886eb

On 22 Jan 2025 I contacted BLS with this question because I wanted to be accurate.

Hi, I am looking for the data that directly coincides with the monthly employment numbers, broken down by naics code. As an example, if we created 256,000 jobs last month, I want the data to show the 256,000 increase, broken down by naics code. I want to add this to my website at guestworkervisas.com Thank You Virgil

I received this response.

Good afternoon,

Thank you for contacting the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program, which produces monthly estimates of nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry.

Please see this table, https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ceseeb1a.htm, which includes employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail, seasonally adjusted for December 2024.

You can also access historical B-1 table data following the steps listed below:

Open the Historical B-1 table data retrieval: https://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cesbtab1.htm

Check the box(es) next to the series and in the column of the type of data to view. Check as many boxes as desired.

Click on Retrieve data at the bottom of the page, and a new window will open displaying up to 10 years of data for each time series selected. If this is not the desired format, more formatting options are available. See the More Formatting Options section of this page under Other Tips for further instructions.

If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us by email, or by calling 202-691-6555.

So I started programming and used that data after verifying that the download matched the 256,000 jobs for that month.

So we’re good, or so I thought.

Yesterday I received this.

It shows a increase of 3 million jobs, so I looked at my data that I downloaded in January and I see an increase of 1,996,000

So I dig into the data.

Their data shows 157,304,000 in Dec 2023 and 154,291,000 in Dec 2022 for a gain of 3,013,000 jobs.

The data I downloaded shows 158,926,000 and 156,930,000 for a gain of 1,996,000 jobs.

So I write them another email and this is what I received.

Thank you for contacting the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program, which produces monthly estimates of nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. CES data are subject to several revisions.

All data are revised for up to two months from their initial release due to the ongoing receipt of sample data. Information on these revisions can be found at https://www.bls.gov/ces/methods/benchmark-tables.htm. After this two-month interval has passed, CES data series are held constant until the annual benchmarking process, when they are revised again to incorporate new universe counts. Benchmark revisions are released with the January employment report and the 2024 benchmark revision article published on February 7^th can be found here: https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbmart.htm.

The annual benchmarking process involves reconciling CES sample-based employment estimates with near-population counts from State unemployment insurance (UI) tax records. UI records are the sample frame for CES data, and they are used because most establishments with employees are required to pay these taxes.

In the benchmarking process, not seasonally adjusted sample-based all employee (AE) estimates for March of the most current year are set equal to an employment value derived from UI counts, plus a small adjustment for the few cases in which employers are not required to pay UI taxes. Only AE data are directly benchmarked. However, because women worker (WW) and production and nonsupervisory worker (PW) data are expressed as a proportion of AE, they too are subject to revision. Furthermore, PW revisions can carry through to hours and earnings data. Revisions to non-AE data, however, are typically quite small.

Resetting the not seasonally adjusted March level of AE causes a shift in the data for that month. Since it is unlikely that all of the difference between sample-based and UI-based employment occurred in March, that difference is proportionally distributed, or wedged, back to the previous April. Data subsequent to the benchmark month is re-estimated, using standard CES methodology, with the new March level as the base. Not seasonally adjusted data is subject to revision from the previous benchmark forward. For example, when data benchmarked to March 2024 levels was released in February 2025, not seasonally adjusted data was revised from April 2023 forward.

Simultaneous with the benchmark, the seasonal adjustment process is rerun for 5 years of data; seasonally adjusted estimates are therefore subject to five years of revision. So, when data benchmarked to March 2024 levels was released in February 2025, seasonally adjusted data were revised from January 2020 forward.

A comprehensive explanation of the benchmark process can be found at https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbmart.htm. The benchmark process for datatypes other than all employees is at https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbmart.htm#BMKRevOtherDT.

A final source of revision may be the switch from one iteration of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to the next, which occurs every 5 years following the 2002 introduction. The most recent iteration was in February 2023 to the 2022 NAICS structure. These changes resulted in minor revisions to the industry structure and to CES estimates.

Information on the 2017-to-2022 NAICS conversion is available at https://www.bls.gov/ces/naics/naics-2022.htm. NAICS industry definitions are available at https://www.census.gov/naics/.

As CES data is revised, it is overwritten in our database. There are, however, sources for first preliminary published data; for example, employment data as originally published. This data is available on the CES Vintage Data page at https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesvininfo.htm. Data is available at the CES supersector, 2-digit, and 3-digit levels of industry detail. Originally published data for women employees, production employees, hours, or earnings are not available on this page. Vintage data tables show all published values since the first preliminary estimates for May 2003.

If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us by email, or by calling 202-691-6555.