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Immigration baby steps
Minnesota Star Tribune December 12, 2012 This month the House passed the STEM Jobs Act, a recycled, Republican-driven measure that increases the number of visas for immigrants earning advanced degrees in engineering, math, science and technology from U.S. universities. Senate Republicans introduced the “Achieve Act,” which offers a reprieve… Read More
Immigration Critical to the Creation of Jobs in Minnesota
Rochester Post-Bulletin December 10, 2012 … Minnesota is getting older and is losing far too many of its young people to other parts of the country, so we’re fortunate that immigrants from around the world see our state as a good place to raise their families, start businesses and… Read More
Poll: Most Back Path to Citizenship
Politico December 10, 2012 Americans want amnesty. A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground poll finds that 62 percent of those surveyed support an immigration reform proposal that would allow illegal or undocumented immigrants to earn citizenship over a period of several years. Thirty-five percent oppose it. …… Read More
Steve Case: Immigration Reform Can Spur Job Growth
U.S. News and World Report December 7, 2012 … As Congress and the president seize the bipartisan opportunity to address the legal, social, and moral components of a comprehensive immigration bill, they should include in the package high-skill visa reform so that we strengthen America’s economic competitiveness as well. Read More
‘Our immigration policy is what I call national suicide,’ Mayor Bloomberg says
New York Daily News December 7, 2012 If the nation wants to lure the technology jobs of the future — and avoid a devastating crisis — it needs an immediate overhaul of its immigration laws, Mayor Bloomberg said Thursday. “We are on the wrong side of global competition,” Bloomberg… Read More
A business leader’s view on why America’s immigration policy is a ‘real threat’ to its economy
Quartz December 7, 2012 The Republicans’ loss in the US presidential election last month has brought some of them to believe that they should take new steps to win the country’s fast-growing Hispanic population, many of which are first- or second-generation American immigrants. That includes making laws that better… Read More
Obama vs. Silicon Valley on Immigration
Wall Street Journal December 3, 2012 … Allowing skilled immigrants to stay in the U.S. would fill the hundreds of thousands of job vacancies expected in the sciences and technology. An increase in skilled immigrants would jump-start the economy. They would support the housing market by increasing demand. The… Read More
Becoming a Land of Missed Opportunities
The Roanoke Times December 2, 2012 … It hardly seems controversial to suggest that the U.S. needs to do more to retain potential job creators, rather than educating them and sending them back to their home countries to compete against us. But there has been a reluctance in Congress… Read More
Press Release: New Report by the Information Technology Council, Partnership for a New American Economy, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Confirms Labor Needs in Fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Low Unemployment Rates in STEM Occupations Reaffirm that Foreign Born Workers with Advanced Degrees Complement United States STEM Workers The Information Technology Industry Council, The Partnership for a New American Economy, and The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today released a new report, “Help Wanted:… Read More
New Report Confirms Labor Needs in STEM Fields
“Help Wanted: The Role of Foreign Workers in the Innovation Economy,” a report by the Information Technology Industry Council, the Partnership for a New American Economy, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, gives evidence that foreign-born workers in the fields of Science, Technology Engineering, and Math (STEM) are complementing… Read More
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