http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/25/smbusiness/h1b_cap.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2007092612But even if Congress does provide more H1B visas, it will not solve the larger problem of a growing skills gap in the U.S. workforce. "It isn't just that there aren't enough Americans graduating in the math and science fields, it's also that there is a need for these people across the globe, and everyone is fighting for them," says Stuart Anderson, executive director of the NFAP and a former staff director of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee (
http://judiciary.senate.gov/subcommittees/immigration109.cfm). "The question is whether or not the hiring takes place inside the U.S., keeping growth and innovation here, or someplace else."
Maybe they should ask why fewer Americans are taking out expensive debts (in an economy that makes getting a loan even more difficult) for jobs that will probably end up overseas anyway. Big businesses are not the sole voices in America? If people have to hop from job to job, we're supposed to have a savings account to draw from. As wages for jobs are making that harder to do, and if these CNN Money people would be less myopic, maybe they can offer more than just a two dimensional sales pitch, the comment of which I excerpted to show above.
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