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Nanomachines son said:

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“America is becoming less white, and that’s what makes this country great”

-Michigan Congressman from India https://t.co/KsV8mrtkRN pic.twitter.com/ITLtPBhkbi

— Vincent James (@davincentjames) December 31, 2024

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This guy is full of crap.
My friend from Detroit knows him personally.

Diversity this diversity that. Now even minorities have learned to use the buzzwords to gladden the hearts of the white liberals.

Till now, no one has been able to conclusively prove that diversity is good. People just repeat which causes more to repeat because they are afraid to be canceled.

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Janna Herron Senior Columnist
Wed, January 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM CST

Maybe the problem with the US economy isn't visa workers or even immigration. Maybe it's much bigger than that.
A squabble on the right that started on Christmas over certain temporary foreign visa workers and later caught the attention of progressive stalwart Sen. Bernie Sanders may be distracting from what's happening more and more an intractable problem the pandemic put into hyper-focus: labor shortages.

From tech workers and teachers to plumbers and healthcare aides, many types of employers across the country are talking about difficulties hiring qualified workers even as pandemic-induced shortages subside.

With the native-born US unemployment rate at 3.7% slightly lower than the foreign-born rate and the economy adding 256,000 jobs last month, the issue doesn't appear that Americans can't get jobs. In fact, it seems like there may be more than enough jobs to go around.

That's a problem if we decide we don't want foreign workers to fill them.

"If you think about the building blocks of GDP, it's productivity and population," said Courtney Shupert, an economist at MacroPolicy Perspectives, a market research firm. "We've seen productivity increase, and we've also seen population increase, and that allows the US economy to increase quite a bit."


When Sanders released a statement raising concerns about the H-1B visa program that brings over highly skilled foreign workers, he also acknowledged that the US was in desperate need of "more doctors, nurses, dentists, teachers, electricians, plumbers and a host of other professions."
His solution to hire qualified Americans first and create an education system that produces workers to fill those roles is noble but misses the big, looming problem. The US workforce is aging and there are simply not enough people in our younger generations to fill in the gaps left behind by the behemoth baby boom generation.

And even though retirees are no longer working, they still require goods and services and rely on working-age adults to produce them, a dynamic called "old-age dependency." Boomers, too, are pretty wealthy, so their consumption likely will be higher than previous generations.
The shortage has already started. Google a profession and the words "shortage in US" and see what comes up. Kent State University has an entire fact sheet on "the accountant shortage in the United States," while Morning Brew explains why the "plumber shortage is gumming up the US economy." Both note that retiring professionals is a big factor behind the shortfalls.

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But that idea seems to be going against the current grain. During the first Donald Trump administration, there were very high denial rates for H-1B visas and more restrictions for high-skilled workers looking to come to the US, according to Regets.
That could leave the US behind in a competitive world where many other countries are facing similar demographic shifts, such as Canada, Western Europe, and Japan. Canada has been known to put out ads to recruit potential foreign workers considering the US, Regets said.
"Having H-1B visa problems?" he said, recounting an anecdote from a few years ago. "Come to Canada instead."
That may sound good to Trump. But it may spell a diminished US economy in the long run.

Janna Herron is a Senior Columnist at Yahoo Finance. Follow her on X @JannaHerron.

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Some wild stuff going on over at Deloitte.

Buckle up. pic.twitter.com/FislZRgl3v

— GBR, LLC (@GayBearRes) January 16, 2025

Charpie said:

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It's going to be bad.

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jwoodmd said:

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Charpie said:

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It's going to be bad.

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And women, don't think of maternity leave. Better drop that kid in the office and get back to work. It's what the servants do.

Better yet, don't think of having a kid. Some woman in India will have one to export to us when needed.

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Charpie said:

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It's going to be bad.

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Nanomachines son said:

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jwoodmd said:

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Charpie said:

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It's going to be bad.

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And women, don't think of maternity leave. Better drop that kid in the office and get back to work. It's what the servants do.

Better yet, don't think of having a kid. Some woman in India will have one to export to us when needed.

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Thankfully India is now below replacement too so they won't be able to do that soon either.

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Charpie said:

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And honestly, I'm torn about that one. I've seen so many women take advantage of this. I worked with a lady who had 3 kids 3 years in a row. She got pregnant when she got hired. Gave notice when she got back from her last kid.

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