First off I don't know why you linked that. It's talking about one universities output of Computer Science degree major in one year. The second, I'll have to due my due dillegence and research because I can't at the moment fact check nor am I familiar with geekwire.
I think Congress has to change the H1B visa program, Trump can't do it with an executive order. He might have trouble convincing a pro-business Congress to change the H1B visa program.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
I'm sure he wouldn't be signing this if "Trump Hotels" was "Trump Tech".
While i'm not a huge fan of all types of job outsourcing...isn't free markets all about getting the best bang for the buck?
That makes zero sense. It means that companies will have to invest in employees who may have the skills but not the exp. This is generally a bigger boon for the local economy.
No one is saying the natives arent skilled. Whats happening is people are being replaced, regardless of being skilled, because immigrants cost less and / or have more exp. Its basically capitalism starting to run amok, and thats when it needs to be curtailed a bit.
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Id be ok with adjusting that amount based on need of an industry. It does seem....a bit high.
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Free markets are only good until they start to become abusive to the local populace. Hence, the need to stop HIB abuse.
You automatically have less skills if you are less experienced. Once again, nationality is completely irrelevant when its about highly skilled and experienced people.
Obviously there arent enough skilled people in special branches, or the companies would not try to get employees from other countries. That its all about "costs" only is nothing but an alt right fairy tale.
And you want to replace capitalism by national preference?
Not much better.
I imagine this will not please a lot of businesses, but theoretically should be better for America.
That is a gigantic leap in the cost of minimum wage. Personally, I think this is going to cause the IT field to suffer. Like it, or not, companies outsourced for a reason. Foreigners filled specialized roles that many Americans didn't want to do, even in the IT field. I have met two American-born Database administrators in the last 10 years. That is two out of literally hundreds that I have met.
I wonder how this is going to impact government agencies, since they tend to hire quite a few foreigners for work in their offices, especially in the DC area. There's no way in hell their budgets can afford double employee wages for some of its staff, so they will either have to fire people in order to hire Americans... or just fire people.