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Without Immigrants, Peaches Left to Rot in the Fields
Bruce Talbott relies on temporary visas to harvest his peaches. Even so, he has faced a significant labor shortage for the last two years running. Picture 100 bins’ worth of peaches rotting in the hot July sun. That’s what America’s broken immigration system has led to for Bruce Talbott and… Read More
Spanish-Born Entrepreneur Creates Big Ideas for Small Spaces
Today, access to affordable housing presents a significant challenge. Ivan Fernandez de Casadevante is part of a team of recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates that thinks they have a solution to the problem. The Spanish native is a co-founder of OriSystems, a company that grew out of… Read More
Immigration Policy Splits the Startup That’s Making a Wildly Popular History Teaching Platform
Thomas Ketchell hopes to transform America’s education system through a simple digital platform. The Belgian native is the CEO and co-founder of Sutori, a tool that allows students and educators to create free interactive timelines — similar to those on Facebook or Twitter — to document historical events. Ketchell first… Read More
Failure to Enact Immigration Reform Puts American Food Supply at Risk Says Former USApple Chair
Bill Dodd, a Republican and leader in Ohio’s apple farming community, is an expert in the apple business. A fourth-generation farmer, he lives on the same 85-acre farm that his great-grandfather bought more than half a century ago. As a farmer and an advocate for farmers, Dodd has watched America’s… Read More
How Tech Startup Founders Are Hacking Immigration
Standing under fluorescent lights at a San Francisco hospital, employees of Medisas Inc. were celebrating the debut of their medical records software. It was the product of two years of planning, coding, and countless meetings with hospital administrators, all driven by Gautam Sivakumar, the startup’s founder and chief executive officer. But Sivakumar spent… Read More
Protecting American Bridges, but Still Under Threat of Leaving the Country Due to U.S. Immigration Policy
Born and raised in Venezuela, Andrea Sanchez spent her childhood accompanying her dad, an engineer and university professor, to the lab. Years later, eager to pursue the same career, she entered a doctorate program at the University of South Florida. Studying in the United States was her top choice; Andrea… Read More
‘Local Workers’ Won’t Do This Dirty Job
Forty one percent of dairy farm workers are foreign born, so it’s no surprise Mike McMahon—who pays his workers $9 per hour to milk his cows—is paying close attention to what the 2016 presidential candidates have to say about immigration.
Language Diversity and the Workforce: The Growing Need for Bilingual Workers in New Jersey’s Economy
This week, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie approved a statewide Seal of Biliteracy, an award given by the school system to students who have attained a high level of proficiency in two or more languages by high school graduation. The bill’s passage coincides with the release of a NAE research… Read More
Immigrant Voices: An Ohio Entrepreneur Who Sees the World Differently
Dr. Ayman Salem came to the United States from Egypt in 1998 to pursue a PhD in material science and engineering at Drexel University. Today he lives in Dayton, Ohio, where he started his own company, Materials Resources, LLC (MRL). In this podcast, Dr. Salem talks about founding and growing… Read More
Congress must let foreign doctors serve America’s rural communities
Across America, foreign-born doctors are providing medical care in some of the country’s most underserved communities: small, rural counties that have only 82 doctors for every 100,000 residents, less than half the number available in urban areas. This is possible, in large part, because of the… Read More
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