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all visas will go to tech, and no visas will go to Nurses, professors, teachers, artists etc
by slt2021 1y ago
all visas will go to tech, and no visas will go to Nurses, professors, teachers, artists etc
- jdale27 1y agoIf they’re not willing to pay up, then there isn’t really a shortage.
- slt2021 1y agosame could be said of famines like the one in China or Soviet Union or ones in Africa: they simply needed to pay up for food, if they were really that hungry your logic erases nuance of the US labor market and infinity of specializations and niches, on top or large regional differences in labor market. let's just say that nurses will never be paid on par with software engineers just because it is different specialty, and it is stupid to force nurses to compete with IT for visas
- some_random 1y agoI had no idea there was a huge shortage of professors, teachers, and artists.
- slt2021 1y agothere is always a demand for a talent in the US
- some_random 1y agoOf course, and perhaps if you're having trouble with supply in famously poorly paid fields then paying better might help.
- 542458 1y agoIf we think those things have positive externalities (such that we want them to happen even if they wouldn't win an auction) we should subsidize them.
- diebeforei485 1y agoNurses generally can't get an H-1B, and professors are exempt. Your argument makes no sense.
- slt2021 1y agoapproximately 500,000 foreign-educated nurses in the U.S. utilize the H-1B visa (per google AI overview)
- lostmsu 1y agoI did not even know you can practice nursing in US without US-based degree.
- slt2021 1y agoWell canadian medical degrees are recognized fully, even canadian medical residencies are recognized fully in the US Probably something similar to nursing programs
- diebeforei485 1y agoGoogle AI is wrong.
- malshe 1y agoProfessors are currently exempt but not for long https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffany-introduces-bill-end-visa-loophole-universities https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffany-intro... https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-introduces-bill-to-end-h-1b-visa-loophole-for-universities https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-int...
- diebeforei485 1y agoI don't anticipate this will even get a committee hearing, let alone get passed into law.
- gruturo 1y agoSo nurses, professors, teachers and artists will be in higher demand and they'll have to pay them a better salary to fill positions? which may attract people who currently avoid those career cause they lead to poverty? Yup I'm sold. And as others said, add a cost factor to train an citizen for every H-1B issued. Actually, slap a 350% tax on all the salaries paid to H-1Bs except for the first 15 people (or, I don't know, 3% of the overall staff, whichever is higher) and make sure it's hard to game with shell companies, body shops and subsidiaries. Precisely 0% chance it'll happen in the current administration, and it's anyone guess if there will be administrations after this one, but a few hours of additional thinking around this solution (this is the first 3 minutes roughly) could make it work way better. Remove limits, make it really expensive, give some rights to the people who come on it, use the money to address real shortages, and watch companies stop abusing it. P.S. European here, with 0 interest in coming to work in the US.