Why do we need to add 100,000+ non-citizens through H-1B visas right now?

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html (Professor Norm Matloff’s H-1B Web Page) “Age is THE core H-1B issue.”

Peter Cappelli at UPenn Wharton School of business has some interesting ideas on “Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs” actually based on research.
http://wdp.wharton.upenn.edu/books/why-good-people-cant-get-jobs/

We have high unemployment now and H-1B visas have almost no benefit to the DREAM Act youth and other undocumented immigrants. Instead, it’s a bait and switch by Microsoft.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/microsoft-stem-education-coalition-h1b-visa-outsourcing

I’m unemployed, too, despite up-to-date skills and good references.

Here are some contacts to speak in south Wisconsin.

Fighting Bob Fest (www.fightingbob.com) one of the largest political festivals in the whole country.

University of Wisconsin-Madison now has a book of the year. So far they used: ‘In Defense of Food’ by Michael Pollan, ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ by Rebecca Skloot. After the students read the book across campus, the lecture’s committee brings the author to speak.

Thank you much to Hedrick Smith, both for the book and for participating in this book salon.

My state had a well publicized report about the skills gap (STEM shortage). I attended a meeting when they released a released a draft. Leaders from manufacturing complained that schools and parents no longer encourage high school graduates to see manufacturing as a viable career option.

So, I asked the representative from our Dept. of Workplace Development about what they offered when a large, decades-old General Motors factory closed a few years ago. THE DWD leader said all those employees were unskilled so the best he could do was offer unemployment benefits. He ignored that these laid-off employees knew welding, painting, and at least how to show up on time. These are all skills employers claim are in short supply

I question the claim by Norm Ornstein (Chapter 18 the missing middle) that Congress would better reflect the needs of common people just by having more “centrists.” Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul cooperated to order an audit of the Federal Reserve. Back during the time of Senator Feingold, there was a group called “Green Scissors” that combined Liberals such an environmentalists with Conservatives that wanted to cut the budget; Liberals chose the targets and the coalition pressed to have the targets cut.

Thank you for your “Chapter 17. The skills gap myth: importing IT workers costs masses of U.S. jobs.”
1) Why did you decide to write about this chapter’s topic?
2) Why is it almost impossible to get anyone else to cover the topic: no journalists, no bloggers on left or right?
The immigration reform debate is mostly concerned with Mexicans who work picking tomatoes or washing dishes. None of these Mexicans use assault guns in schools so border security is a red herring while we give away good middle class jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through H-1B visas.

Where is the “skills shortage” to justify more STEM visas (or H-1B)? Is there any objective evidence such as spiking salaries? We’ve heard claims of a shortage of scientists for decades. Show me a closed factory that will benefit from engineers without money to buy them food, shelter, and tools.

http://wdp.wharton.upenn.edu/books/why-good-people-cant-get-jobs/

The mainstream media have lots of sob stories about sympathetic young PhD graduates from overseas that want to start a company in the US and when the same show gives time to US workers, the lighting is dim and the US worker is portrayed as obsolete. The reality is that US companies want these visas to create a more coercive workplace. These visas are outsourcing! The US worker loses a job as I did eight months ago, and I am still unemployed despite good references and current skills.