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on September 7, 2016 in World News

Caterpillar Hires H-1B Foreign Graduates, Fires 300 American Professionals

by Neil Munro Caterpillar is firing 300 American employees in Mossville, Illinois, even though it is continuing to recruit and pay foreign “H-1B” guest-workers to do the white-collar jobs sought by American professionals in the United States. Caterpillar’s combination of white-collars layoffs and H-1B outsourcing matches the much-criticized decision by Carrier, a company in next-door Indiana, to outsource 1,400 blue-collar factory jobs to Mexico. Outsider GOP candidate Donald Trump has vigorously denounced the outsourcing by Carrier’s air-conditioning business. His opposition has helped him get a nine-point polling advantage in the state. But Trump’s support for major reforms to the H-1B program to… View Article

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on September 7, 2016 in World News

Trump ‘Stealth’ Voters Could Thwart California Democrats’ Supermajority

by Chriss W. Street The California Democratic Party believes it will pick up a legislative super-majority that would allow them to raise taxes despite Republican opposition, but it may find itself blindsided by Trump “stealth voters” who clandestinely support his policies. Democrats have had the majority in both the California Assembly and the Senate for the last 46 years, except for the Assembly in 1995-1996. That has given them the ability to create California’s laws and craft budgets. But because the California Constitution requires a two-thirds super-majority of both houses of the legislature to raise taxes — even though it only takes a… View Article

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