{"id":693,"date":"2026-08-18T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:44:07","slug":"why-americans-cant-find-jobs-the-number-nobodys-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/why-americans-cant-find-jobs-the-number-nobodys-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans Can&#8217;t Find Jobs: The Number Nobody&#8217;s Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In FY2025 the U.S. issued 859,476 worker visas while the economy created just 584,000 net new jobs &#8212; 1.47 worker visas for every job created, about 6.6x the normal 2011-2019 rate and higher than any point during the 2008 financial-crisis recovery.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/why_americans_cant_find_jobs.php'>Read the plain-language breakdown<\/a>, or see the <a href='https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/worker_visas_outpacing_job_creation.php'>full 39-year data and methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In FY2025 the U.S. issued 859,476 worker visas while the economy created just 584,000 net new jobs &#8212; 1.47 worker visas for every job created, about 6.6x the normal 2011-2019 rate and higher than any point during the 2008 financial-crisis recovery. Read the plain-language breakdown, or see the full 39-year data and methodology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-h-1b"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}