cis.org - 2/11/2009
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Very few H-1B workers are "highly-skilled." Employers who used the Department of Labor's skill-based prevailing wage system classified most workers (56 percent) as being at the lowest skill level (Level I) as did most State Employment Security Agency (SESA) wage determinations (57 percent). This ...
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Tom Friedman Is Spelled "S-T-U-P-I-D"
Open Left - Front Page —
... He's aggressively uninterested in the concrete data that show the H-1B program is most often used to lower a company's labor costs, not improve its intellectual capacity, and to offshore the very knowledge-based information sector jobs that Friedman says he wants to attact to the United States. ...
David Sirota: Tom Friedman Is Spelled "S-T-U-P-I-D"
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... Grassley - an amendment so uncontroversial and bipartisan that it passed by voice vote. And really, it's hard to know where to begin with someone like Friedman who is theocratically devoted to ignorance. In Friedman's world, the H-1B program does one thing and one thing only: it helps benevolent corporations attract "first-round intellectual draft choices from around the world," which therefore makes our country and our economy stronger. He's aggressively uninterested in the concrete data that show the H-1B program is most often used to lower a company's labor costs, not ...
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