Hey its not BS - too many kids just are not taught real math anymore; too many have no ambition, no work ethic, no desire to succeed.
Engineering is hard - but not as hard as it was come calculators and so on. However, the US is churning out fewer and fewer engineers.
Stopping H1Bs is not going to make kids magically want to be engineers or anything else in STEM. Its an educational and cultural problem, not a legal problem.
Stopping H1Bs is not going to make kids magically want to be engineers or anything else in STEM. Its an educational and cultural problem, not a legal problem.
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When 74% of American STEM graduates can not get employment in their field after graduation, that is a severe problem. Why struggle in college for 4 to 6 years getting a real degree, only to see your job and opportunity for to foreigners and be saddled with $100 to $200K in student loans a foreigner does not have to pay?
Number one job-killer is huge tax breaks (no FICA or Medicare taxes) given to companies hiring foreigners, in addition to foreigners generally willing to work for up to 34% less than an often more qualified American - see the various H1B wage levels. Only Level 4 is comparable to American wages. Most are 16 to 34% less than American wages. A vast majority of H1Bs are at Level 1, which pays 34% less than the industry median wage.
https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wage-levels/
What I see far too often with those young men who opt for a college education is just as you describe: “...too many have no ambition, no work ethic, no desire to succeed.”
They have been pounded down and defeated by the system before they get to that level.