The H-1B visa program is meant to help U.S. companies recruit highly skilled foreign nationals when there is a shortage of qualified workers. However, based on previous data, many foreign companies with subsidiaries in the U.S. and qualified nonprofit organizations are…
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I always suspected caste was preventing Americans like myself from working in American technology firms
This book pretty well sums up what is happening and why we are not getting jobs anymore. While role of kinship in transnational mobility has been established through research (Levitt 2001Levitt, P. 2001. The Transnational Villagers. Berkley: University Of California Press. [Google Scholar]; Taylor, Singh, and Booth 2007Taylor, S., M. Singh,…
Why is Alamo College, the Dept of Labor and Codeup LLC doing this when so many experienced developers are unemployed, or underemployed?
For crying out loud folks, I’m working as a janitor at the local VA hospital. I’ve developed software, built teams, led teams, documented touch points between systems, and much, much more. Yet I can’t even buy a damn interview. And…
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where are these jobs at? REP. JEFF DENHAM? FWD.us? Information Technology Industry Council? Partnership for a New American Economy?
High-skilled immigrants create new employment opportunities: The Information Technology Industry Council, the Partnership for a New American Economy, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that “every foreign-born student who graduates from a U.S. university with an advanced degree and…
Jaya Padmanabhan, when you and the San Francisco Examiner, get serious about studying jobs, etc., come talk to me as you don’t have a clue
“If Trump is going to turn his back on migrant labor, then he’s sowing the seeds for the eventual decline of American economic power,” he said. “It’s as simple as that. Canada will benefit economically from the fact that it’s…
Another entry level job refusal, so it has to be age related discrimination
Dear Virgil Bierschwale, Thank you for your interest in federal employment with the Department of the Navy. This is a record of the selection decision for the position of IT SPECIALIST (APPSW/SYSANALYSIS) with FLTREADCEN SOUTHEAST as detailed in announcement ST-10105786-18-KRB.…
Tell me something Hiral Sanghavi, those six full time workers and 11 remote contractors, what nationality are they?
Shah received her master’s degree in computer science from Columbia University in 2010 and landed a job as a developer for a Silicon Valley tech company where she was given an H1-B worker visa. About five years later, Sanghavi took…
Our silence enables the displacement of American Workers
As an elected official who represents Americans, I think it’s important to defend the jobs for American citizens
I for one think it is way past time that we replaced Governor Dannel P. Malloy with somebody like Rep. Chris Davis of Ellington. “To only allow citizens to work in our country is wrong-minded,” Malloy said. “The fear that I have…
Sadaf Raza, Why did you not explain that we have more people than we have jobs and that Americans are being displaced?
Why is it that the question is never asked. Do we have enough jobs in America for our citizens? Organizer Sadaf Raza is from a Pakistani Muslim family. She will graduate from the University of Arkansas in May with plans…