Genuine question: what's the relation between "beneficiaries approved" and "# of layoffs"?
In Prometheus' term, the "beneficiaries approved" is neither a counter nor a gauge. It doesn't tell you the percentage of H1b holders amongst all full time employees and certainly don't include H1b contractors. It also don't include other temporary visa types like L1 or H4, both could be "cheap foreign labors".
The "# of layoffs" also doesn't provide much information about how many H1b holders are part of the layoffs.
The goal of combining the two columns seems to be giving reader a fuzzy feeling that they are correlated, to support the author's narrative.
In Prometheus' term, the "beneficiaries approved" is neither a counter nor a gauge. It doesn't tell you the percentage of H1b holders amongst all full time employees and certainly don't include H1b contractors. It also don't include other temporary visa types like L1 or H4, both could be "cheap foreign labors".
The "# of layoffs" also doesn't provide much information about how many H1b holders are part of the layoffs.
The goal of combining the two columns seems to be giving reader a fuzzy feeling that they are correlated, to support the author's narrative.