{"id":193,"date":"2016-02-27T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T22:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2016-02-27T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T22:21:14","slug":"a-phony-stem-shortage-and-the-scandal-of-engineering-visas-how-american-jobs-get-outsourced-la-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/27\/a-phony-stem-shortage-and-the-scandal-of-engineering-visas-how-american-jobs-get-outsourced-la-times\/","title":{"rendered":"A phony STEM shortage and the scandal of engineering visas &#8212; how American jobs get outsourced &#8211; LA Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-mh-the-scandal-of-engineering-visas-20160226-column.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-56d0ee84\/turbine\/la-fi-mh-the-scandal-of-engineering-visas-2016-001\/750\/750x422\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Evidence is ample that the very claim of a STEM shortage in the U.S. is phony. Salzman noted that &#8220;overall, our colleges and universities graduate twice the number of STEM graduates\u00a0as find a job each year.&#8221; The mismatch is especially stark in the biomedical field.\u00a0There, according to a 2014 paper\u00a0by experts from UC San Francisco, Harvard and Princeton, &#8220;the training pipeline produces more scientists than relevant positions in academia, government, and the private sector are capable of absorbing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>As a result, &#8220;a growing number of PhDs are in jobs that do not take advantage of the taxpayers\u2019 investment in their lengthy education.&#8221; As we reported last year, the same high-tech corporations that poormouth their ability\u00a0to find skilled workers simultaneously lay them off by the thousands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>High-tech firms in the U.S. cut nearly 80,000 employees last year, according to the job placement firm Challenger, Gray\u00a0&amp; Christmas. That included 47,000 announced layoffs from Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Unisys and Microsoft. (The former CEO of the latter, Steve Ballmer, is also a co-chair\u00a0of the Partnership for a New American Economy.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The reality of the H-1B program is that it fails to serve as a conduit for the skilled and virtuous immigrant known for what Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., described as &#8220;the entrepreneurial spirit, the determination to make a go of it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-mh-the-scandal-of-engineering-visas-20160226-column.html\">A phony STEM shortage and the scandal of engineering visas &#8212; how American jobs get outsourced &#8211; LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence is ample that the very claim of a STEM shortage in the U.S. is phony. Salzman noted that &#8220;overall, our colleges and universities graduate twice the number of STEM graduates\u00a0as find a job each year.&#8221; The mismatch is especially stark in the biomedical field.\u00a0There, according to a 2014 paper\u00a0by experts from UC San Francisco, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","category-education","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}