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Saturday, October 4, 2003
A Missing Statistic: U.S. Jobs That Have Moved Overseas. The "offshoring" of work has become so noticeable lately that experts in the private sector are now trying to quantify it. By Louis Uchitelle. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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>Cap on U.S. Work Visas Puts Companies in India in a Bind. The H-1B program has become an issue as the United States economy softened and employment slumped. By Saritha Rai. [New York Times: Business] (The cap on temporary imported (mostly) tech workers has dropped to 65,000. The Indian outsourcing firms are said to be worried about how they can possibly continue doing their U.S. work with the lower limits. They could actually hire U.S. workers for U.S.-based positions, rather than importing workers from outside the U.S. Only a tiny percent of imported temporary tech workers hold graduate degrees, for example. Regardless, U.S. tech employers deliberately chose very limited lobbying on renewing the H-1B legislation right now partly due to the soft U.S. jobs market, but mainly because they will hold more leverage next spring during campaign season. By giving money to political campaigns next year, they can buy better legislation that enables them to import more workers with even fewer restrictions than the modest restrictions in existing law. I am not making this up - I saw it in an immigration law firm's PowerPoint presentation.) [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 8:07:30 AM
>More Ozone hole silliness. This article says, again, that the southern hemisphere has a record setting ozone hole in the upper atmosphere (except NASA says it isn't record setting) . The size of the hole, quoted in the article, is 10.8 million square miles. The same article says the ozone hole was 13 million square miles in the year 2000. Now, I could be wrong here but think 10.8 million is less than 13 million. I think they are saying that the thinnest part of the ozone hole is larger than before, but that is different than what the headlines are screaming. Fortunately, not many people are out sunbathing in Antarctica, where the sun just rose for the first time in months, about one week ago. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 8:06:08 AM
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