[rdcbn]

This article is BS .

Top flight technical people are always in short supply

[indthkr]

"Top flight technical people are always in short supply"

Your response is BS and laughable, although based on the logic, you sound like a socialist, so I shouldn't be surprised.

[Jonty30]

Sure, top flight.

Top flight candidates are not what tech companies are using H-1 visas for, but for the jobs that competent American workers could do.

[qam1]

This article is 100%

I’m in and had been in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical industry

Whenever I have an entry level position open, I am flooded with Resumes from overqualified people with many years experience. I see many highly qualified people with long gaps in employment history, struggling to find any work.

Granted a big part of that is I am in New Jersey, but H1Bs (and Internships) have decimated salaries and jobs in this industry. Go to any pharmaceutical company, a quarter or half the science staff has the last name Patel.

[skeeter]

Reports by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the RAND Corporation, the Urban Institute, and the National Research Council have all found no evidence that STEM workers are in short supply.

All these institutes are lying?

[cyclotic]

I hope you’re right. My son is starting college in August in astronautical engineering.

[Zathras]

Not exactly true.
Cheap technology people are in short supply.
Its all about “cheaper and shorter design cycles” right now.

[GOPJ]

Years ago a doctor told me about a horrible shortage of nurses... He said nurses were being brought in from the Philippines to assist...

I was puzzled - told him I knew of nurses who were having a hard time finding work.

Here's where it got real - he said, ‘American nurses want too much money’.... So the only ‘shortage’ was of desperate third world types willing to work for low wages.