That don't have a lot of the same salaries, benefits (stock options, etc.) that we once had. I just had a contract job end after three months earlier this week, and am back looking for jobs for the second time this year after looking for jobs twice last year too.

When the immigration bill didn't pass that would have raised the H-1B quota, many companies still had staffing needs they couldn't fill with H-1B with the quotas filled, so I believe that many of them are hiring Americans as contractors for the time being until they can get another bill to expand the H-1B quota again, where they'll ditch us to get cheaper H-1B contractors from H-1B body shops later.

So I would contend that "low unemployment rate" is misleading now. It will go up again if they expand H-1B quotas.

H-1B program expansion along with TPP is another reason why we really want Bernie as the Democratic Party nominee if Trump wins the Republican nomination. The anti-TPP and anti H-1B vote that is rather synergistic, will take a lot of votes away from Hillary if she were to win instead of Bernie. Trump would need to beat Bernie on other issues to win the presidency instead of free trade and H-1B opposition.