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BretLudwig wrote:
: First, the primary reason there is a "shortage" of "qualified science and
: engineering candidates" is because it's in industry's current perceived
: interest to say that there is, so they can import H-1B candidates, smart
: indentured servants microtomed from the stratified loaf of Third World
: countries who will work for thirty or forty thousand dollars a year in
: Silicon Valley.

That doesn't explain why we see two or three times as many businesses at
our career fairs even than during the dot-com peak, pleading with us to
provide them with more graduates, while the number of graduates we have
to offer continues to decline. A big part of THAT problem is public
perception of the job market. That's why I used Nursing as an example.