Now I would like to believe that all of these were real jobs but the simple fact is a job has to be advertised for US citizens before an H1b can be put into it. Considering the circulation area of the Washington Post and the number of operations centered in the area a reaonable number of pages would be more like 25.
Since there are so many IT people out of work an opening in Dc or Minnesota will attract resumes from all arround teh nation. The actual numbers on IT do not support any rosy scenario and I really dislike people who try posting red herrings that do nothing to improve the discussion. How many of what specific type of IT jobs here are we talking about. Are we talking maintaing PC's in an office or are we talking senior level positions requiring analytical skills. Are we talking manning a technoical help line (clerical IT position) or are we talking maintaining a legacy system. Further, in DC one is also talking about a number of lower level poistions still supporting what are classified government projects. These may be open right now in DC but that says little baout the overall health of the economy.