Noam Scheiber
@noamscheiber.bsky.social
Labor and workplace reporter at the New York Times, former New Republic writer. Author of "The Escape Artists," about Obama and the Great Recession.
Relatedly, @alecmac.bsky.social wrote a very good piece a few months back on a topic I touch on, which is the Potemkin job ads companies run when they're trying to secure a green card for a worker and are supposed to try to find a U.S. worker first.
The Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided Trump’s Crackdown on Immigration
Every Sunday, newspapers are full of ads for tech jobs that aren't really looking for applicants. They reveal an aspect of U.S. immigration law that hurts both domestic and foreign workers — yet has e...
www.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Relatedly, @alecmac.bsky.social wrote a very good piece a few months back on a topic I touch on, which is the Potemkin job ads companies run when they're trying to secure a green card for a worker and are supposed to try to find a U.S. worker first.
And Republican views of the GOP remain strong. 91% favorable versus 8% unfavorable.
October 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
And Republican views of the GOP remain strong. 91% favorable versus 8% unfavorable.
By contrast, around this time in the previous cycle, Sept. 2023, 93% of Dems had a favorable view of their party vs 7% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/511979/...
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
By contrast, around this time in the previous cycle, Sept. 2023, 93% of Dems had a favorable view of their party vs 7% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/511979/...
"Through the 1960s, corporate lobbying was a collective enterprise--a large majority happened thru trade associations, not lobbyists that companies hired directly. That had flipped a generation later. By 1998, companies spent 63% of their lobbying money on their own lobbyists."
September 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Through the 1960s, corporate lobbying was a collective enterprise--a large majority happened thru trade associations, not lobbyists that companies hired directly. That had flipped a generation later. By 1998, companies spent 63% of their lobbying money on their own lobbyists."
If you're interested in the sociological effects of all of this, I have a book coming out on the topic. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Mutiny
The story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America.Since the Great Recession, recent college grads hav...
us.macmillan.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
If you're interested in the sociological effects of all of this, I have a book coming out on the topic. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Some of that is the fact that there are just more college grads today than 10 years ago. But a chunk of it is demand. I link to a number of papers in their documenting the dropoff in demand for college grads.
September 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Some of that is the fact that there are just more college grads today than 10 years ago. But a chunk of it is demand. I link to a number of papers in their documenting the dropoff in demand for college grads.
Here's a chart we did for the story. College grads have gone from about 20% of the long-term unemployed a decade ago to about 1/3 today.
September 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Here's a chart we did for the story. College grads have gone from about 20% of the long-term unemployed a decade ago to about 1/3 today.