The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage: How Guest Workers Lower US Wages

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    The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage: How Guest Workers Lower US Wages
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/the-bogus-high-tech-worker-sho/

    A battle rages in economic policy circles: Should America make its borders more open to high-tech guest workers, or should we batten the hatches? Even those who oppose totally open immigration often support temporary guest worker visas, known as H-1B work visas, for high-tech.

    But some oppose them, arguing that — as in other industries — workers from abroad undercut the wages of those domestic workers who would otherwise do the jobs here in America.

    Today we present the case against high-tech guest workers from a trio of academic researchers associated with the Economic Policy Institute.


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    An additional article -
    What STEM Shortage?
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378334/what-stem-shortage-steven-camarota