If finding work is this hard maybe we should be slowing down immigration.

Most here aren't arguing it's exceptionally difficult to find some kind of a job or education opportunity to meet the requirements. We're mostly arguing about adding all the additional bureaucracy to add additional requirements that will need to be documented and validated. And arguing that many who should be eligible for exceptions will end up not eligible because of some paperwork or bureaucratic oversight.

There is about the same amount of money allotted to help states stand up new programs to validate these requirements as the federal cost of Trump's birthday party.

The obvious answer is education and vocational training programs to help people develop skills that are needed today. Unfortunately, the people most affected by the changing demands of the modern economy are also people who have been negatively polarized against education.

We're on a tech forum and Trump approved of more H1b's to be hired this year. What does that say about his policies to create American jobs?

The able-bodied should be working before they receive any kind of government assistance on the basis of being low-income.

Anyone working shouldn't require government assistance on the basis of being low-income.

Why not?

The government shouldn't be subsidizing businesses that refuse to pay sufficient wages.

The government isn't subsidizing businesses when it gives low-wage workers welfare. Those workers would be working just as hard without the welfare, if not harder.