TRANSPARENCY FIRST. ACCOUNTABILITY FOLLOWS.: A Policy Framework for the American Citizen Workforce

What percentage of any company’s workforce is actually made up of American citizens?America tracks unemployment, wages, and visas — yet this basic question has no standardized federal answer. Not for any company. Not in any industry. Not for any American worker trying to understand why their resume disappeared into silence.After fifty years inside banking and enterprise technology, Joseph V. Brunoni saw the pattern clearly: qualified American citizens were being systematically displaced by six categories of labor substitution that the federal statistical system never measured at the company level — offshore contractors, Green Card holders, humanitarian workers, visa programs, international students, and AI-driven automation.Together, these categories represent an estimated 34 million labor equivalents operating inside the American economy.This is not a data problem.It is a classification problem.Transparency First. Accountability Follows. introduces the U.S. Citizen Labor Ratio (UCLR™) — the first standardized framework to measure what share of any company’s total workforce belongs to ready-and-able American citizens. Built on three proposed NAICS codes that a single Presidential Executive Order can activate, the framework makes workforce composition visible, comparable, and public for the first time.The book documents the gap, the federal engagement already underway, and the two-phase solution:Phase 1 delivers transparency through classification.Phase 2 delivers accountability through market-based incentives that reward companies for prioritizing American citizens.The raw data already exists across multiple federal agencies. What is missing is the classification infrastructure to connect it into standardized, company-level metrics that policymakers, workers, and the public can actually use.One Executive Order can connect them.This is the story of how one American citizen built the measurement system America never had — and why it matters for every worker, every policymaker, and every company competing in the 21st century.Transparency First. Accountability Follows.OnShoringAmerica.com Read more