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Silicon Valley has created an imaginary staffing shortage Business executives and politicians endlessly complain that there is a shortage of qualified Americans and that the U.S. must admit more high-skilled guest workers to fill jobs in STEM fields. Yet within the past month, two odd things occurred: The Census reported that only one in four STEM degree holders is in a STEM job, and Microsoft announced plans to downsize its workforce by 18,000 jobs. Even so, the House is considering legislation that, like the Senate immigration bill before it, would increase to unprecedented levels the supply of high-skill guest workers and automatic green cards to foreign STEM students. The authors, who self-identify as longtime researchers of the STEM workforce and immigration, argue that they have been unable to find any credible evidence to support the IT industrys assertions of labor shortages. Full article: goo.gl/6KaKvj
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:15:12 +0000

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