Month: May 2021

2019 Job Gains vs Visas Issued

These are the jobs we gained over 2019 Year OES CES CPS IRS 2020 139,099,570 143,602,000 149,613,000 157,195,302 2019 146,875,480 152,846,000 158,504,000 154,094,555 Gain / Loss -7,775,910 -5,970,520 -8,891,000 3,100,747 These are the visas we issued in 2020 for non-immigrant…

Understanding the data

The Department of Labor posts their own employed totals in three basic formats that I have found so far. The are: OES – https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm CES – https://www.bls.gov/ces/ CPS – https://www.bls.gov/cps/ Problem is, they all seem to be based on samples.…

Coming Soon

I first started Keep America At Work back in august of 2007 when I was desperate to know why I couldn’t get hired anymore. Since then, through many ups and downs, this site has seen many different iterations trying to…

Non-Immigrant Guest Worker Data

There are two types: Applications – https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance Approvals – https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies Applications seem to run around 500,000 to about 650,000 per year, and you can find a summary for each year like this one: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/oflc/pdfs/LCA_Selected_Statistics_FY2020.pdf Approvals can be found in reports…