Despite the fact that technology plays an increasingly important role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth. The still sluggish U.S. economy gets most of the blame for this wage ...
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When the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. That didn't mean, however, that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for everyone. New York City Mayor ...
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The U.S. House is moving closer to acting on legislation that would make green cards available to as many as 55,000 foreign nationals who have earned advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math -- the so-called STEM fields. ...
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Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- The White House is all for the idea of a STEM visa, just not the one in a bill by House Republicans. In a "statement of administration policy" issued late Wednesday, the White House said that while it ...
When the recession hit in 2008,Congress and big tech employers mostly shelved the idea of creating more H-1B visas to combat what some described as a skills shortage.This year,however,proposals for overhauling work visa programs have ...
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Computerworld - Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Mitt Romney's platform describes government's basic research efforts as an area Romney "plans to cut."Romney says research is important to innovation and ...