{"id":5674,"date":"2014-01-09T17:50:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:18:11","slug":"zuckerberg-achieves-goal-in-2013-lower-wages-for-tech-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/01\/09\/zuckerberg-achieves-goal-in-2013-lower-wages-for-tech-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Achieves Goal in 2013 \u2013 Lower Wages for Tech Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"zuckerberg\"University of California, Davis, Computer Science Professor Norman Matloff points<\/a> to a new report<\/a> put out by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).\u00a0 The NACE found that the starting salaries of 2013 bachelor degree graduates increased 2.6 percent from 2012.\u00a0 However, in three categories starting salaries decreased from the previous year, including computer science (-0.2%) and engineering (-0.1%).\u00a0 Education graduates (-0.2%) were the third category.<\/p>\n

The tech industry for years has repeatedly and falsely argued that computer science and engineering are two occupations in which there is an acute labor shortage and demanded massive increases in foreign guest workers. \u00a0While the drop in starting salaries in these occupations was not drastic it does indicate that there is no shortage<\/a> of skilled workers in the U.S.\u00a0 If there were a lack of workers, wages would be rising precipitously, not falling. This is a basic rule of economics that even a genius like Mark Zuckerberg should be able to grasp.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg, who has pledged $50 million<\/a> dollars to pass a bill increasing the number of skilled guest workers, along with amnesty and increases in legal immigration, did not see his earnings<\/a> decrease in 2012.