{"id":2480,"date":"2013-02-08T16:44:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2017-08-14T08:46:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T12:46:01","slug":"vivek-wadhwa-promises-guest-workers-will-%e2%80%9csave-the-world%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/02\/08\/vivek-wadhwa-promises-guest-workers-will-%e2%80%9csave-the-world%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Wadhwa Promises Guest Workers Will \u201cSave the World\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vivek Wadhwa has become the tech industry\u2019s go-to guy for making baseless claims of a skilled worker shortage in the U.S.\u00a0 Mr. Wadhwa has been known to employ complete non-sequiturs and engage in hyperbole<\/a>, which only highlights that his arguments not only have no basis in fact, but have no connection whatsoever to reality.\u00a0 In his recent testimony before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee (starting at 52:20), Wadhwa was in fine form.\u00a0 He educated the committee on the history of U.S. manufacturing in under than thirty seconds, congratulated himself for helping to cure diseases at light speed, and claimed that if only the U.S. admitted more skilled immigrants we could \u201csave the world,\u201d instantly, no less, and create \u201cunlimited water.\u201d\u00a0 (He really did say that.\u00a0 It\u2019s at the 57:50 mark).<\/p>\n

Wadhwa claims that foreign tech workers not only don\u2019t displace American workers but create jobs by driving innovation.\u00a0 Without a massive increase in foreign workers, the U.S. will crash and burn because we just can\u2019t produce enough home grown talent.\u00a0 He references studies that prove this.\u00a0 What he doesn\u2019t say is that all studies<\/a> not produced by the tech industry say exactly the opposite.\u00a0 In fact, before he became a shill for the tech lobby, even Wadhwa argued that claims of a worker shortage were not true.<\/p>\n

Forget the conventional wisdom. U.S. schools are turning out more capable science and engineering grads than the job market can support\u2026. Even if there were a deficiency in math and science education, there are so many graduates today that there would be enough who are above average and fully qualified for the relatively small number of science and engineering jobs. Science and engineering graduates just don’t see enough opportunity in these professions to continue further study or to take employment.<\/em><\/p>\n

Vivek Wadhwa, \u201cThe Science Education Myth,\u201d Bloomberg Businessweek, October 26, 2007<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vivek Wadhwa has become the tech industry\u2019s go-to guy for making baseless claims of a skilled worker shortage in the U.S.\u00a0 Mr. Wadhwa has been known to employ complete non-sequiturs and engage in hyperbole, which only highlights that his arguments not only have no basis in fact, but have no connection whatsoever to reality.\u00a0 In<\/p>\n

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