As such, there's a large
supply of technical workers here, coming from universities such as the Royal Institute of Technology and the Chalmers University of Technology in nearby Gothenburg.
The need for more visas to bring in more scientists may be apparent to officials at companies or universities that employ large
numbers of technical workers, or at universities that graduate large numbers of foreign students who wish to stay here.
Some Republican senators, including Jeff Sessions of Alabama, have also said they oppose the I - Squared approach, in part because they believe the United States already has an
oversupply of technical workers in many fields.
Other companies started identifying this same need, and a new
group of technical worker known as developer operations, or DevOps, emerged in the last decade or so.
Likewise, a 24 % increase in a $ 52 million program serving community colleges is in step with the Administration's efforts to enlarge the
pool of technical workers.
Tom Cross, who is a software security researcher and co-developer of the MemeStreams social networking Web site, also disagrees that «if we want to improve America's scientific competitiveness, we need to increase the
supply of technical workers, which will reduce their cost.»
The American Electronics Association estimates that by 1987 the
number of technical workers will have to increase by about 64 percent to meet the labor needs of the electronics industry.