OECD Warns US on Unemployment and Unbalanced Tax Policies

Published: June 27, 2012

The Guardian
June 26, 2012

New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg has some strong opinions on the immigration debate:

“Every day we let our antiquated immigration policies stand is a day we send new innovations, companies, and jobs abroad.”

The link is to a piece of research from Bloomberg’s Partnership for a New American Economy “showing that 76% of patents from America’s top 10 patent-generating universities in 2011 had a foreign-born inventor.”

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