Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
by charliea0 on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:52PM
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Given all of that, the unemployment rate is still only 4.5%.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
by toomuchtodo on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:59PM
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Sounds like the metric is unreliable and cannot be trusted as input for policy, based on the evidence and ground truth.
U-6 (the most inclusive unemployment rate) is 8.1 as of this comment: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE
So, start cutting labor visas until the unemployment rate improves. The domestic labor clearly exists.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications
by toomuchtodo on Monday September 29, 2025 @11:10AM
(#45414809)
Additional citation:
Millions of Workers Are Left Out of the 'Low-Hire, Low-Fire' US Job Market - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45414795 - September 2025
https://layoffs.fyi/
Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306539 - September 2025
Ask HN: Recent unemployed CS grad what do I do? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43211153 - March 2025
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/it_job_market_july/
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/job-market-report-c...
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/06/unemployment-job-market-edu...
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1kcc40j/what_happ...
https://apnews.com/article/college-graduates-job-market-unem...