Sentences with phrase «increasing skilled immigration»

Companies are not the only powerful entities with financial interests in maintaining or increasing skilled immigration.

I haven't researched this at all but it seems plausible that radically increasing skilled immigration could potentially make up for the low birth rate and contribute to holding off the stagnation and decline Japan faces if present trends continue unabated.

Not exact matches

In a vote today, the U.S. Senate passed a historic immigration reform bill whose provisions include a visa for foreign - born startup founders and an increase in the number of visas available to highly skilled workers employed by technology companies.

We've increased immigration levels from 200,000 to 300,000 and a new global skills strategy that will help streamline more talent from abroad, high - end and in - demand talent to help companies grow.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

Sessions rightly points out that the Senate bill would enormously increase low - skill immigration and that this would damage the economic prospects of low - skill US....

The Senate bill is basically amnesty, plus some gestures toward border enforcement that are and insult to the intelligence, plus increased legal low - skill / low - wage immigration, plus internal enforcement that will at best be delayed and most likely be abandoned altogether when the heat is off.

As the unemployment rate continues to somewhat decline among low - skill workers, employers of low - skill labor will clamor for an increase in low - skill immigration.

The Gang of Eight deal also includes an enormous increase in low - skill immigration and one can expect that the House Republican leadership will attempt to do the same thing.

A politics of using immigration to increase the ranks of the low - skilled, and then reducing the programs they will depend on when they are old and unable to do physical labor, might seem like good business to the affluent.

Had it asked specifically about increasing low - skill immigration, the proposal would have been roughly as popular as... reducing taxes on the rich while cutting Social Security and Medicare for everyone else.

To give credit where it is due, a group of House Republicans sent a letter to President Obama explaining that the Senate immigration bill the president supports would sharply increase low - skill immigration and put downward pressure on the wages of low - skill Americans and low - skill noncitizen....

A majority of Senate Republicans voted for upfront legalization and increased low - skill immigration, but that only tells part of the story.

They will get their low - skill immigration increase one way or another — legally if they can, illegally if they must.

The public and politic case for upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration (under the label «comprehensive immigration reform») was made by the Republican National Committee's «autopsy» of the 2012 election.

This week, the Senate GOP will kill effective immigration enforcement unless they can get an increase in low - skill immigration.

The Democratic Party's elites have thoroughly abandoned their mid-1990s skepticism about increasing future low - skill immigration, and have tried to present support for upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration as a referendum on whether Hispanic Americans (and nonwhites generally) are to be accepted as full American citizens.

The majority of the party's elites favor a combination of upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration that is opposed by most of the party's voters.

It should go without saying that increasing immigration is hideously unpopular, and increasing low - skill immigration is likely even more unpopular, but the Republican elites want what they want.

The public overwhelmingly opposes increasing immigration (the number would no doubt be even more overwhelming if the question were restricted to low - skill immigration).

On immigration, regular Republicans like Ryan try to weasel increases to low - skill immigration whenever they think they can get away with it.

Their coherent policy agenda of tax cuts for high - earners, spending cuts for everyone else, and increased low - skill immigration favors the business lobbies.

In 2013, political elites of both parties favored an immigration bill that primarily increased low - skill immigration, even though the unemployment rate for low - skill workers was over 10 percent.

By not taking on the guest worker program, by not focusing on internal enforcement, and by coming out for increased low - skill immigration, Jindal basically agrees with the Chamber 0f Commerce - Chuck Schumer Axis that produced the Gang of Eight plan while offering conservative opponents a border certification process.

This despite the extreme unpopularity of increasing low - skill immigration among lower - earning American workers.

The House Republicans rightly point out that the proposed increase in low - skill immigration will increase the labor market competition facing a group that already has an unemployment rate of over 10 % in order to reduce the labor costs of employers.

To give credit where it is due, a group of House Republicans sent a letter to President Obama explaining that the Senate immigration bill the president supports would sharply increase low - skill immigration and put downward pressure on the wages of low - skill Americans and low - skill noncitizen residents.

Their opinion may be moot, however, because senators Charles «Chuck» Grassley (R — IA) and Jeff Sessions (R — AL)-- both longstanding opponents of the H - 1B visa and increased high - skill immigration — have been named, respectively, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and head of its immigration subcommittee.

As the nation debates immigration reform, companies and universities that employ foreign scientific and technical personnel are arguing that the answer is yes, and that Congress should significantly increase the number of H - 1B visas, which admit skilled workers to the United States for a limited number of years.

The daytime expert conference helped to explain why people still argue that a skills shortage requires increased immigration, despite the reality of today's very challenging STEM job market.

It recommended ways to improve K - 12 education, big changes in high - skill immigration rules, and the creation of 30,000 new scholarships to increase the number of scientists in the pipeline, among other measures.

This includes a planned targeted increase in the Economic immigration categories (including the Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Skilled Trades Program, Canadian Experience Class and Provincial Nominee Programs) and an increase in the Family immigration categories (including spouses, partners and children, and parents and grandparents).

The current labor shortage can be attributed to skilled workers not returning to construction after the recession, a difficulty attracting Millennial workers, and the increases in the enforcement of immigration laws.