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Comment Re: This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 1) 231

Raw data is here: Department of labor raw data
Here is a paper on the topic
1. Expand "Disclosure Data"
2. Scroll down to "OFLC Programs and Disclosures"
3. Row titled "Prevailing Wage"
4. Download PW_Worksites_FY2025_Q3_new_form.xlsx
You can filter by job, location, and employer name. I just filtered by SOC_TITLE containing "Software" and the range is from 47,424 to 226,158, avg = 131,800.

Also: H1-B visa applications by employer.
The top are: Amazon, Google, JP Morgan Chase, Tata consulting, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Deloitte, Walmart

Comment Re:Government should not own businesses..?? (Score 1) 105

The US typically approaches this by purchasing the products from the companies, or using trade pressure to make another country purchase products from them -- rather than by buying them out. The US government isn't talking about buying ExxonMobil, Raytheon, Boeing, etc. This is definitely weird.

Comment Re:Government should not own businesses..?? (Score 1) 105

and GOP became socialist.

As everyone in that reddit thread pointed out, that quiz is about fascism not socialism. The open debate is: Does the author of that reddit post not know the difference, or are they intentionally confusing the two as a form of misdirection? The post has merit even though it mislabels things.

Comment Re:Other metrics (Score 1) 200

If America really cared about their citizens, the Unemployment rate should consist of All Americans divided by the number who work. Getting that number to one would be amazing.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes that number. It's called the employment-to-population ratio. Since there many different opinions on how to interpret the data, the BLS publishes it every which way. Most press reports what is called the U-3 number because most economists agree that it is the most useful one.

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