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WIRED: Cutting H-1B Visas Endangers Scientific Progress For Everyone
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order calling for a sweeping review of the H-1B visa program has raised alarm in STEM-related industries that rely heavily on an international supply of high-skilled labor. Current policy for H-1B visas, which permit highly skilled foreigners to work in… Read More
NBC News: Colorado Wants More Bilingual Workers, Creates High School ‘Seal of Biliteracy’
One state is signaling the growing importance of bilingual skills by touting its young people who are fluent in more than one language. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper recently signed into law a bipartisan bill establishing a Seal of Biliteracy program, which recognizes high school graduates who are proficient in a… Read More
Missourian: For high-skilled immigrants, policy shifts complicate path to entrepreneurship
Sitting in his company’s 6,000-square-foot facility in an industrial part of northeast Columbia, Hao Li, the chief executive officer of Nanova Biomaterials, recounted his journey to becoming an entrepreneur. Li, who grew up in China, said he always knew he wanted to start a business and make products to help… Read More
Palm Beach Post: Hispanic leaders pitch reform vs. ‘irrational’ Trump immigration plan
Hispanic business leaders gathered Wednesday in West Palm Beach to champion the economic contributions of foreign-born workers, picking up the beleaguered banner of immigration reform four months after President Donald Trump stormed the White House in a campaign launched with a blistering attack on “rapists” and criminals from Mexico. “We… Read More
The Columbus Dispatch: Forum focuses on promise of immigrants to Franklin County
The population of Columbus is expected to triple over the next 30 years, and a large part of that growth will be immigrants and refugees. That’s why it is important to start a communitywide discussion about the challenges and opportunities faced by these populations, Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said at… Read More
Washington Post: Region’s demand for bilingual workers is booming. Should D.C. schools offer more dual-language programs?
Advocates for bilingual education and District leaders argued Thursday that the Washington region’s workforce has a growing demand for bilingual speakers that could be filled by D.C. public school graduates if the school system boosted its dual-language education programs. The panel discussion featured D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson, school… Read More
Washington Post: Despite Trump’s ‘Hire American’ pledge, budget bill would dramatically expand the number of foreign workers
So much for President Trump’s “Hire American” promise. Just two weeks after Trump signed an executive order vowing to crack down on a program designed to import high-skilled foreign labor, a provision slipped into the budget compromise with Democrats this week could double the number of visas for low-wage, seasonal… Read More
May Day 2017: Why immigrant labor is more important now than ever
On Monday, tens of thousands were expected to walk out of their jobs and take to the streets for a national Day Without Immigrants strike. The strike was predicted by organizers to be the largest single-day labor strike in over a decade. The message of Monday’s protest was… Read More
A sudden paucity of waitstaff, hosts, and housekeepers has Maine’s hospitality industry feeling the heat this year.
It felt like a bad omen that, at the Maine Office of Tourism’s annual industry conference, a late-season snowstorm forced labor commissioner Jeanne Paquette to drop out of a discussion on the conference’s main theme, workforce development. An innocuous-sounding topic, but just the thought of “workforce development” can give innkeepers… Read More
Bloomberg: “Trump May Not Want Refugees, but Rust Belt Mayors Do.”
In 1997, refugee Alem Boric and a partner started Europa Market, 600 square feet of Bosnia in St. Louis. Today, what began as a corner store in the city’s Bevo Mill neighborhood is a 96,000-square-foot (8,900-square-meter) juggernaut that distributes smoked meats, cheeses, cakes and Croatian jams from the former Yugoslavia,… Read More
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