Hot off the presses folks!
Yes, that’s right, Mr. Patriotic 9-11 wants to make sure middle class workers are displaced and exposed to labor arbitrage! Aren’t you glad he’s such a loyal American? Loyal to corporations operating in America that is. Look at Rudy Giuliani’s top priority:
Expand the number of H1B Visas for skilled foreign workers to meet market demand
Anyone based in reality would never say the program needs to expand since right now American graduates cannot get a job!
Dr. Harold Salzman, The Urban Institute -
The available data indicate that the United States’ education system produces a supply of qualified STEM graduates in much greater numbers than jobs available.
We just had world leading experts testify before congress proving there is no worker shortage and Americans are being shut out of high quality middle class careers. So Giuliani of course wants to make that situation worse!
Giuliani claims he wants to aggressively push for more bad trade deals and this is his only solution for our trade deficit:
Reduce corporate tax rates and regulatory burden so that Americans can better compete in the global economy.
Oh yes, I’m sure that’s it, has nothing to do with the agreements themselves being written by and for…
Watch a Washington State Governor utter blatant falsehoods on the current state of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics labor market as well as pretty much dismiss out of hand someone speaking up who clearly has the career qualifications in a town hall meeting.
The House Science Committee held a hearing on November 6, 2007 completing their series on Globalization of R&D and Innovation.
Before you go to sleep, some fairly shocking testimony proving there is no worker shortage and some additional shocking facts on how the US debt is affecting job creation as well as how current research grant awards are inversely affecting R&D!
The available data indicate that the United States’ education system produces a supply of qualified STEM graduates in much greater numbers than jobs available.
even further more frightening is the implications that Americans might be displaced in graduate school opportunity:
Although there have been steady increases in the numbers of U.S. citizens and permanent residents pursuing a STEM education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, the number of graduate students on temporary visas has also grown. It is unknown whether this indicates students on temporary visas are filling a demand for graduate students that U.S. undergraduate colleges cannot meet (serving as a complement to the domestic supply) or whether universities and companies are substituting temporary visa students for academically qualified U.S. students. Most likely, it is some of both.
