“It’s an article of faith: the United States needs more native-born students in science and other technical fields. But a new paper by sociologists at the Urban Institute and Rutgers University contradicts the notion of a shrinking supply of native-born talent in the United States. In fact, the supply has actually remained steady over the past 30 years, the researchers conclude, while the highest-performing students in the pipeline are opting out of science and engineering in greater numbers than in the past, suggesting that the threat to American economic competitiveness comes not from inadequate science training in school and college but from a lack of incentives that would make science and technology careers attractive. Cranking out even more science graduates, according to the researchers, does not give corporations any incentive to boost wages for science/tech jobs, which would be one way to retain the highest-performing students.”
“Lack of incentives that would made science and technology careers attractive.” What that means is that you go into big time debt and spend all these years getting a good education, but don’t get a job because there’s always cheap H-1B labor that can be bought in from India, and goofball politicians like Gabrielle Giffords who wants to triple the H-1B visa program.
The answer is not for fewer (real) Americans to go into science and tech, it’s for Congress to do the opposite of what Miss Giffords wants, and severely restrict the H-1B visa program, only allowing it for those who are (1) identifiably Caucasian, and (2) Have wage, salary and standard of living expectations, and other non-pecuniary workplace expectations, similar to those of Americans, especially white Americans.
