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Professor Thies writes (excerpts):
"With 53 percent of recent college graduates under/unemployed, Graham and the gang brazenly propose that every foreign student who earns a U.S. masters or doctorate degree in a STEM field be automatically given a permanent work permit. But data, both nationally and at Clemson, refute Grahams labor-shortage claims.
"For example, the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which tracks STEM salaries of new graduates, reports that overall engineering starting salaries have been flat since 2010, with a tiny 0.3 percent increase. Similar trends exist for more experienced workers...."
....There indeed is a brain drain but its an internal brain drain, as the best and brightest U.S. students move out of the STEM field after graduation into areas where salaries are more lucrative because of less worker competition....
"....I have the most students in my Thermodynamics class in 28 years of teaching. If Graham would just leave the current system alone so that just the truly best and brightest students can stay, market forces will respond, and the number of U.S. citizens graduating with advanced STEM degrees will significantly increase."
The column is full of useful statistics that illustrate how Americans are fully capable of meeting the demands of STEM jobs both presently and in the future.
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/art...ey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|p&nclick_check=1
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"With 53 percent of recent college graduates under/unemployed, Graham and the gang brazenly propose that every foreign student who earns a U.S. masters or doctorate degree in a STEM field be automatically given a permanent work permit. But data, both nationally and at Clemson, refute Grahams labor-shortage claims.
"For example, the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which tracks STEM salaries of new graduates, reports that overall engineering starting salaries have been flat since 2010, with a tiny 0.3 percent increase. Similar trends exist for more experienced workers...."
....There indeed is a brain drain but its an internal brain drain, as the best and brightest U.S. students move out of the STEM field after graduation into areas where salaries are more lucrative because of less worker competition....
"....I have the most students in my Thermodynamics class in 28 years of teaching. If Graham would just leave the current system alone so that just the truly best and brightest students can stay, market forces will respond, and the number of U.S. citizens graduating with advanced STEM degrees will significantly increase."
The column is full of useful statistics that illustrate how Americans are fully capable of meeting the demands of STEM jobs both presently and in the future.
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/art...ey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|p&nclick_check=1
OVER 216,000 PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED IT!
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION AGAINST AN AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS!
WHY SIGNING THIS PETITION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OTHERS!
While every petition, fax, email and phone call against the amnesty is important, signing this petition is by far the most important single thing one of your friends or relatives can do.
The reason is that signing this petition puts a person into an email system at NumbersUSA that will alert them every time one of their elected officials needs to hear something specific about immigration. Nobody else but NumbersUSA runs a customized grassroots mobilization system like this that constantly gathers information on Capitol Hill about your Members of Congress and then lets you know what they are doing, saying and thinking about immigration policy.
The New York Times and other mass media have repeatedly stated that NumbersUSA's mobilization network led the efforts that defeated the close-call amnesty efforts of 2007 and 2010. But the forces for open borders are far more powerful today. Please help by passing along this Petition to everybody you know.
https://www.numbersusa.com/petition?uid=83447
