THE SHORT VERSION• On October 8, 2026, the Labor Department suspended eight companies from PERM, the labor-certification step of the employment-based green card process: Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini, Microsoft and Adobe. This is not only an “Indian IT” action.• The suspension hits the green card step. It does not cancel H-1B jobs, so...

On October 2, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Black unemployment rose from 6.0 percent to 7.0 percent in a single month [1][2]. The takes arrived on schedule. One camp called it a crisis. The other called it statistical static and went back to lunch. Both were wrong in ways that matter, and both...