[Yossarian]

I can tell you that in the Silicon Valley, the “skills gap” is nonexistent.

People take classes all the time at the local UC-Santa Cruz Extension campus in Santa Clara - a VERY expensive proposition - for “skills” that employers are telling them are keeping them from getting positions...

...only to STILL not get the jobs, and to STILL see H1B-visa holders flood the valley. The next excuse is “you don’t have ENOUGH experience at that skill!”

What is happening in this country is vile.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The companies that hold their H1B visas are willing to write fake resumes telling the employer anything he wants to hear.

[pierrem15]

It's crony capitalism from top to bottom- they expect the state to subsidize their low wage employees (EITC), pay for education and worker training, and then if wages still aren't low enough, be free to break the law using H1B visa scams or just hire illegals.

This is why crony capitalists love socialism: socialize costs, privatize profits.

This won't stop until a large amount of the scum floating to the top of the system are removed, violently if necessary.

[Rusty0604]

Public school and some college institutions aren’t teaching kids what they will need to know to work. Now with common core it’s going to be worse.

[Wuli]

but they - as Obama’s techie friends - will get all the HIBs they want from an illegal Obama exec order

[Secret Agent Man]

exactly.