Sam Peak
@SpeakSamuel
Labor and Mobility Policy Manager @InnovateEconomy. Former Senior Policy Analyst @afphq. Kansas City native. 🇺🇸💡
.@RonDeSantis has a bill on his desk that would allow employers to enforce noncompetes against workers for 4 years and eliminates requirements that employers prove legitimate business interests to use them. I wrote why he should veto in the @SunSentinel. sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/01/flo…
The criticisms of Medicaid work requirements are the following: - In Arkansas, an overwhelming majority of people kicked off Medicaid for not meeting the work requirements were, in fact, already working. - Work requirements didn't increase labor force participation. If your…
My latest in @USATODAY: “But we shouldn’t want people to stay on welfare with no strings attached, especially able-bodied adults. We should want them to lead better lives.” Read more: usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
Gen Z populists backed by @CPInst and @Heritage are brilliant young leaders in the fight for civilization... until you publicize their neo-Nazi rants & their extensive ties to white nationalists, then they're children. jasonahart.com/2023/10/30/ame…
This man began harassing teenage boys on the internet years ago and is still tailing them as they make their way in the world. Reasons unknown.
From @NFAPResearch's excellent piece on how Trump's AI plan omits immigration. forbes.com/sites/stuartan…
In the private sector, 85,000 H-1Bs are admitted each year. In academic affiliated institutions, the H-1B is uncapped. But despite facing the greatest competition against H-1Bs, it's this group of people who are less prone to anti-immigration attitudes.
Boomers running companies that export their workforce (or import H1-Bs) will fund 800 new Koch fellowships about "the dangers of socialism" without ever taking any interest in (or responsibility for) the underlying factors of political radicalization.
My friend @AttyStevenBrown is right. This is the first block—of many more to come—in the invisible wall against high-skilled, legal immigration. You can’t preach efficiencies and stop doing things that increase efficiency. When will @DOGE get to immigration!?!
My reading of this is that they are basically getting rid of Dropbox (interview waivers) for most categories. This will lead to longer waits for appointments and is significantly less efficient for renewals of visas. Also requiring interviews for children is patently absurd
If there were deportation "trials" as James Madison thought there should be under the Constitution, there would be no mass deportation because local juries wouldn't vote to deport peaceful, contributing neighbors. Prosecutors wouldn't even bring the cases.
Yes, the horror in Gaza would end if Hamas surrendered, but Israel's humanitarian obligations are no more contingent on Hamas's capitulation than ours in Iraq were contingent on al Qaeda or ISIS laying down their arms. Israel's failure to secure and provide for the Gazan…
Great to see some Senate GOP pushback to the OMB slowdown of NIH funding
The Teamsters are a heavily mob-infiltrated union that exists to extract rents by preventing technological progress. They'll lie about safety—Waymos beat humans—, they'll lie about protecting jobs—Uber generates huge consumer surplus. They will repeat any nonsense they need to.
The anti-things getting better coalition is revving its engines
The DIGNITY Act of 2025 fixes our immigration mess. No amnesty. No federal benefits. No citizenship. Just border security, mandatory E-Verify, and Dignity. A final fix that is good for America, with zero cost to taxpayers.
Work requirements are the right's rent control. Supporters refuse to look further than the intentions of the policy to see that it actually makes things worse.
The problem is that it doesn't do a good job of hitting those not working. Most who get booted are working. x.com/besttrousers/s…
This is incredible. In light of all the pessimistic studies about pairing and fertility there’s new positive evidence. My intuition has always been in more recent cohorts (around my generation) people REALLY try to assess well before they get married.
It looks like new marriages are (shockingly) stronger than in past decades. 🧵
New housing is expensive and not affordable to the poor. But the people who can afford to live in the new building vacate their old home, which is affordable. The affordability benefits of new housing are indirect.
Bannon told Americans a lie that if they donated money to him, he could use the money to build the wall. Instead, he pocketed the money for his personal use and then was arrested while on his friend's luxury yacht. Defending Bannon is nothing short of depraved.
We’ve lost friends, supporters, and professional opportunities because of our relationship with Steve. I will NEVER disavow. Stephen K. Bannon is an American hero. This clip shows exactly why.
Want more affordable housing? 🏠 Cities like Sarasota, FL (rents down 43%) and Providence, RI (rents down 19%) prove that pro-housing policies work. Streamlining permits, easing restrictions, and allowing multifamily developments = lower rents. Here’s the secret 👉 Build…
Layoffs are normal for any large firm. Many of the people who were laid off were likely H-1Bs, who are often the first to go because they're more expensive than their U.S. counterparts. It's not about replacement. When firms hire fewer Americans, they also hire fewer H-1Bs.
If you are laying off Americans, you should be ineligible for H-1B visas
People are making the argument that immigrants aren't assimilating in an era where Donald Trump won a majority of the immigrant vote.
Under @RepMariaSalazar disgraceful 'DIGNITY Act' Illegal aliens get the benefits of living here without the responsibilities of citizenship. They want access to our job market, our economy, public services, schools, hospitals — but none of the civic ties, assimilation or actual…