Last week the nation's jobless rate ticked back up to 7.9%, yet at Microsoft more than 6,000 jobs go begging. These are jobs that pay, on average, $104,000 for applicants with only a bachelor's of science degree. "Great jobs," notes Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith. No kidding.
Multiply that across America's high-technology landscape and the total is tens of thousands of jobs requiring math, science and engineering skills that companies can't fill—a good chunk of the 3.7 million job vacancies reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Whether those jobs should be reserved for Americans who someday may qualify—or farmed out to a ready-made pool of high-skilled foreigners—will be one of many pitched debates over the immigration reform legislation introduced last week. Read more >>
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