Immigration in the News

The Need for Skilled Workers

As Washington debates immigration reform, focusing mainly on millions of residents without legal papers, little attention has been directed to a key business issue: America’s demand for skilled foreign labor. Companies decry a shortage of professionals, at a time when U.S. unemployment is low and more than half of all advanced degrees awarded by U.S. universities in math, science and engineering go to foreign nationals, not U.S. citizens.

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Undocumented Immigrants in Vermont

Thousands of the farm workers on Vermont’s dairy farms are there illegally. Dairy farm workers don’t qualify for a guest-worker program that allows foreigners to enter the U.S. for seasonal jobs. Farmers and state politicians say that Washington’s policy hurts the state’s dairy industry. From Vermont Public Radio, John Dillon reports.  Listen by clicking here.

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