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Trump is planning on signing an executive order on Tuesday that will cause a review of the H1-B program. It is just a review, and undoubtedly business interests will step up the pressure, but there are some interesting ideas:
"If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard or skill or wage, to a skill-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers, because you're not bringing in workers at beneath the market wage," the official said. "So it's a very elegant way of solving systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."
Breitbart of course has an article out (though it reads like they need to hire some native speaking editors) -- still, recent college grads face a huge hurdle:
The federal government releases little data on the many different guest-worker programs, but the available evidence says the national population of white-collar contract workers is up to 1.5 million. That population is roughly twice the population of 800,000 Americans who graduate from college with skilled degrees each year.
And finally, lest people forget that progressives also have issues with H1-B visas, here is Bernie Sanders (a decade ago of course) attacking this ploy to make sure money only trickles up by ensuring low wages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9QdQIKqMc
[Ed Note: Trump did sign the executive order at a photo op in Wisconsin.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:24PM (2 children)
No where does he say he wants to go through a collapse. We're all scared shitless of a collapse, but we're also fed up with being serfs in a rigged game that is only getting worse every year. Also, some of us would like our planet to remain inhabitable in the long term. We have so much human capital, so many potentially talented people who could be given useful projects, but we're hamstrung by greed and the focus on capitalistic profits. No no, nothing wrong with the idea of capitalism, only with applying it 100% to society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:08PM (1 child)
You either have the resources to live the way you want, or you do not. It's that simple.
The word "profit" doesn't just mean "bank balance"; money is but one way to measure profit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:18PM
Highschool economics is not enough for you to enter this discussion.