Usefootnote

Footnote (usefootnote.com) — A cross-agency employer dossier that no single government source publishes: 2.1 million+ certified H-1B LCA wage attestations joined to USCIS petition outcomes, to state WARN layoff notices collected from 48 jurisdictions, to DOL wage-and-hour enforcement records, and further joined outward to SEC EDGAR filings, earnings transcripts and federal court records. The proprietary output is the cross-read itself — which employers filed layoff notices and new visa wage attestations in the same window — plus a forward-modelled estimate of the resident H-1B population (515…

Usefootnote offers (Alternative, Sentiment, Reference) — 2.1 million+ certified LCA wage attestations as the spine, cross-referenced against WARN layoff filings from 48 jurisdictions, USCIS petition outcomes by employer, DOL enforcement records, SEC EDGAR filings and earnings transcripts, and federal court records — a multi-source employer corpus rather than a single large table, so breadth of joins is the volume story, not raw row count.

This is the strongest genuine alpha in the pool because the join creates a signal that does not exist in any single dataset. Employer hypocrisies become measurable: a firm announcing layoffs under WARN while simultaneously filing new H-1B wage attestations at below-market levels is a documented, dated, citable event — usable as an event-study feature for equity research on labour-intensive public issuers, for short-side and forensic research, and for ESG and social-license scoring. Second: credit and counterparty risk on private employers, since the corpus pairs filings-based revenue and runway proxies with enforcement history and layoff behaviour. Third: workforce-authorisation exposure scoring — how dependent an employer's headcount is on sponsored labour, and what a policy shock would cost it. Fourth: compensation-benchmark and offer-negotiation features in recruiting products, which is the vendor's own current use. Fifth: the stated population model, which is a rare defensible estimate of resident H-1B stock that the government has never updated since 2019.

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