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SPRINGFIELD — Employers are seeking to fill high-skilled, high-paying jobs in a variety of industries, but there’s concern that there aren’t enough educated workers to fill the positions. More than 750 job seekers attended the Regional Workforce ...
May 19, 2012 at 04:00 | Source: Springfield News Sun
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow more Ph.Ds, scientists, and other high-skilled workers trained at U.S. universities to remain in America. The bill (S. 3185) would increase the H-1B visa quota by 55,000 ...
May 17, 2012 at 23:58 | Source: FOX News
People are having fewer kids, a combination of more workplace opportunities for women and the high cost of having and raising children. And far from the image of the permanently sputtering economy, businesses are attracted to America for its skilled labor ...
May 27, 2012 at 17:34 | Source: YAHOO!
Immigration opponents have said high-skilled visa expansions take good-paying jobs from Americans and work as a disincentive for students who should be striving for those jobs. Those factors make the new push for four relatively new senators an ...
May 22, 2012 at 17:12 | Source: New York Times Blogs
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- TechNet, the bipartisan policy and political network of technology CEOs that promotes the growth of the innovation economy, today hailed the U.S. Senate introduction of the SMART (Sustaining Our Most ...
May 17, 2012 at 17:46 | Source: PR Newswire
In August 2008, Deloitte projected an 84,000 adjuster shortage by 2012, a shortfall that Mile High Adjusters is looking to eliminate over the next few years. Denver, CO (PRWEB) May 15, 2012 Insurance Adjusting is an age-old industry that has somehow ...
May 24, 2012 at 21:20 | Source: YAHOO!
VICTORIA lacks good cooks, university lecturers, computer programmers and doctors and has recruited more than 10,000 foreigners to do the work. A record 88,590 people are in Australia on business-sponsored 457 visas doing jobs Australians cannot do.
May 14, 2012 at 14:08 | Source: heraldsun.com.au
Iowa needs more workers like Carol Reed to train for fast-growing, high-paying jobs, based on a new report looking at Iowa’s skilled worker shortage. Reed, 49, is training to become a nurse after she was cut as a medical transcriber late last year.
May 24, 2012 at 16:05 | Source: Des Moines Register
Many of Pittsburgh's peer regions face the same dilemma. The Brookings report noted the "very high concentration of high-skilled immigrants in older industrial metro areas in the Midwest and Northeast such as Albany [N.Y.], Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh ...
May 27, 2012 at 04:05 | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Changes came last month from Ottawa — letting employers pay temporary high-skilled foreign workers up to 15 per cent less (5 per cent for low-skilled workers) than the prevailing local wage. “With this policy, employers are getting a signal from the ...
May 24, 2012 at 20:37 | Source: Toronto Star