Who creates jobs, and who destroys them

The original mission

Every public company says it creates jobs. It appears in the annual report, the press release, the ribbon-cutting. Almost none of them are ever measured against it.

Meanwhile the same company can close a plant in Ohio, move production offshore, run a buyback with the savings, and still describe itself as an engine of American employment. Both things are printed. Only one gets checked.

The Foundation for Job Creation was founded to check it — to look at public companies and ask a plain question with a factual answer: is this company adding American jobs, or shedding them?

What we look at

The numbers are public. They sit in 10-Ks, WARN notices, and earnings calls, and almost nobody assembles them into a picture of employment:

• Headcount over time — total employees year over year, and where they are located
• Layoffs and plant closings — WARN Act notices, which employers must file before mass layoffs
• Offshoring and reshoring — work moved out of the country, and work brought back
• Domestic capital investment — new facilities, expansions, and what they actually staff
• Apprenticeships and training — whether a company builds its workforce or only hires finished ones
• Buybacks against payroll — money returned to shareholders versus money invested in people
• Contract and temp conversion — headcount that drops because jobs were reclassified, not eliminated

Two lists

The work sorts into two categories, and both matter:

Companies that create. Firms genuinely adding American jobs — opening plants, running apprenticeships, hiring into the trades. These deserve to be known, and customers and investors who care should be able to find them.

Companies that destroy. Firms cutting American employment while presenting themselves otherwise. Not every layoff is a scandal — businesses contract, industries change, and honest failure is not fraud. What we are after is the gap between what a company says about jobs and what its filings show.

How this is published

Analysis is published openly, with the sources shown, so anyone can check the work. Research also appears under the founder’s byline on Newsweed.com’s Substack, which carries market and finance commentary alongside the Foundation’s work.

Why a nonprofit does this

Because nobody else will do it this way. Wall Street research is paid for by the companies being covered or by people trading them. Employment is a footnote in that world, when it appears at all.

A nonprofit with no clients and nothing to sell can look at the same filings and ask a different question — not what will the stock do, but what does this company do to the people who work for it. That is education in the plainest sense, and it is squarely inside what the Foundation was formed to do.