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Americans: Don't bother to study engineering any more!

Your government has set exciting new performance goals for itself. The
Department of Labor has published it's strategic 5 Year Plan, here. Under
Performance Goal 2H, "Address worker shortages through the Foreign Labor
Certification Program", we find:

"H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job,
and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of the foreign
worker."

Isn't that special? I could bring in a new hire H1-B at what DOL thinks are
the prevailing wages for Engineers, a whole 40K/year in Silicon Valley
(Level 1 Engineer, DOL stats!), and I can use them to displace overpriced US
college grads. Pretty slick. Of course the displaced workers can be
retrained to something more appropriate.

Repeat after me:

"Do you want fries with that?"

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