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STEM OPT Is Harming Virginia’s Ability to Invent and Innovate (opens the original)
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Have you ever wondered why 70% of internet traffic goes through Northern Virginia? So did Jonathan Low, and in 2016, he took a road trip to map data centers and came to realize the back bone of the internet was concentrated between Dulles and Ronald Reagan airports. The area has traditionally been home to major intelligence agencies and federal government communications nodes. For instance, an array of early microwave towers was created in the region in 1952.Later government agencies and contrac
The Wild and Raucous World of H-1B Visa, OPT, and CPT Reform (opens the original)
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This is an extended version of a recent sermon that includes much greater detail than space allowed in last week’s free newsletter. You can sign up here: https://instituteforsoundpublicpolicy.org/newsletter-signupResponding to the irrepressible public outcry against employment visa programs such as the H-1B, President Trump’s administration has engaged in everything from executive orders to rulemaking to focused investigations leading to fines and debarments from the program for companies that a
PBS's H-1B Story Isn't Complicated — It's Card Stacked (opens the original)
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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines propaganda as, ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause. And today, we are going to take deep dive into the very slick and if I may say, even artful propaganda techniques and methods employed in a recent PBS article by Hanna Grabenstein titled, Trump says skilled foreign workers take jobs away from Americans. It’s not that simple, experts say.
The Soul of Work (opens the original)
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When Labor Unions Forget Who They're Supposed to Represent (opens the original)
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There’s something profoundly backwards about a labor union called the United Auto Workers (UAW) joining universities and international-education lobbying groups in a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to block a rule imposing greater scrutiny on temporary student visas. But the UAW isn’t alone. Sitting right alongside it on the complaint is The NewsGuild-Communication Workers of America (CWA) and that inclusion might be the more out
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