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• untog 14y ago
  A "5-6% drop in wages" isn't "half", though, is it? And the CIS is an organisation that advocates reducing immigration[1]- excuse me if I take their report with a pinch of salt: Applications for 47 percent of H-1B computer programming workers were for wages below even the prevailing wage Note that they switched from "workers" to "applications" on that one. Applications with wages below the prevailing level are usually denied. It's little details like that which ruin any trust I might have in a report that is nearly ten years old. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies
  • pixelcort 14y ago
    Even further, if 47% were wages below, that means 53% were for above, right? Of course, we don't know the distribution, but at a glance that means that more applications were for above the prevailing wage.