[who_would_fardels_bear]

It would be wrong for government to step in and try to provide PhD's with higher salaries than the supply/demand equation would justify.

But it is equally bad for government to weigh in on the side of industry and universities to proclaim a lie (that there is a dearth of scientists) in order to justify H1-B programs and the like.

[rbg81]

But it is equally bad for government to weigh in on the side of industry and universities to proclaim a lie (that there is a dearth of scientists) in order to justify H1-B programs and the like.

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Agree with you there. BTW, I am a university professor in computer science. And I can tell you that many science programs (especially graduate ones) would dry up and blow away without foreign students. Mine included.