THESE COUNTRIES HAD THE MOST DV-2022 GREEN CARD LOTTERY WINNERS
The US State Department has published its August 2021 Visa Bulletin which reveals how many people born in each eligible country were randomly selected as winners of this year’s DV-2022 Green Card Lottery. According to the Visa Bulletin, there were 7,336,302 main applicants who participated in the DV-2022 Green Card Lottery (a total of 13,191,296 […]
HELP WANTED TO FILL ONE MILLION US JOBS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
A surge in the construction of new homes and people making home improvements across America has resulted in a severe shortage of construction workers in the United States. It is predicted that workers will be needed to fill 430,000 construction jobs in the USA this year and that an additional one million US jobs in […]
PRESIDENT BIDEN WELCOMES NEW US CITIZENS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
An extra special US citizenship ceremony was held on July 2, 2021, for 21 newly-naturalized American citizens at The White House. These US Green Card holders were fortunate to have their naturalization ceremony just in time to celebrate Independence Day (the 4th of July holiday) as brand new American citizens. President Joseph Biden welcomed the […]
THE FASTEST GROWING JOBS IN THE USA ARE IN THE STEM FIELD
US jobs in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field are the fastest growing jobs in America. Examples of high-demand STEM occupations include actuaries, cloud computing professionals, critical care nurses, epidemiologists, software developers, among many others. Since 2000, three times the amount of STEM jobs in the USA have been created than non-STEM occupations. […]
US JOB SEEKERS HAVE AN ADVANTAGE DUE TO WORKER SHORTAGE
The economic principle of “supply and demand” can be seen at work in America as the high demand for employees and the low supply of workers is giving US job seekers an advantage over employers. Now that the world’s largest economy is bouncing back from the pandemic disruptions, employers are facing a challenge trying to […]
WORKERS CAN CHOOSE FROM A RECORD 9.3 MILLION OPEN JOBS IN AMERICA
There are currently a record 9.3 million US job openings available to workers, according to the US Department of Labor’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) report released in early June 2021. This breaks the previous record of 8.3 million US job vacancies reported by the Department of Labor last month. Days earlier, the […]
MAY 2021 US JOBS REPORT SAYS 559,000 MORE AMERICANS ARE WORKING
On June 4, 2021, the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 559,000 more people were working in the USA during May. The BLS also reported that the unemployment rate in the US dropped to 5.8 percent, which is the lowest since the start of the global pandemic. Economists generally consider […]
NIGERIAN BOY BECOMES NATIONAL CHESS MASTER AFTER MOVING TO AMERICA
A 10-year-old former refugee from Nigeria has become a national chess master after moving to America. In 2017, young Tani and his family were able to relocate to the USA as refugees and they settled in New York City where the boy joined the chess program at his school. He started defeating other young chess […]
EMPLOYERS OFFER HIGHER WAGES TO FILL JOBS IN THE USA
The United States is experiencing a major labor shortage and this is forcing employers to increase wages at the fastest rate in 25 years in order to fill US job vacancies. According to the US Department of Labor’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) report released in early May 2021, there are more than 8 […]
LATEST CENSUS DATA INDICATES US IMMIGRATION NEEDS TO INCREASE
Data from the 2020 Census suggests that US immigration needs to increase substantially in order to sustain economic growth in the United States by compensating for a declining birth rate and an aging workforce. According to the information gathered for the US Census, the population of the United States grew by only 7.4% from 2010 […]