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Why your college major doesn't always matter

Shortly before he died in 2011, Steve Jobs famously told President Obama that Apple would have located 200,000 iPhone manufacturing jobs in the United States, rather than China, if he could have found 8,700 qualified industrial engineers in the U.S. This exchange and...

Salzman testifies on impact of high-skilled immigration

Hal Salzman, a professor at the Bloustein School and a senior faculty fellow at the Heldrich Center, recently testified at a U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on the impact of high-skilled immigration on U.S. workers. He discussed how U.S. policies and...

The federal government’s H-1B racket

The libertarian-leaning me believes an American employer should be able to hire pretty much anyone he or she wants to hire. But the taxpaying me believes that if the federal government limits immigration yet creates a special visa program for highly skilled foreign...

Senate committee hears voices of STEM workers

Rutgers University labor force expert Hal Salzman distinguished between a skills shortage and difficulties hiring workers at the price an employer wants to pay. Science Careers, March 23

Republicans criticize use of high-tech visas

"When there is a shortage, wages go up," said Hal Salzman, a professor of planning and public policy at Rutgers University. "So, if there is a demand out there, why haven't we seen wages increase?" USA Today, March 17

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