Bosman Rule Foreign Immigration: The Positive Impact
Monday, October 3, 2011 - 11:10
in Psychology & Sociology
In the 1990s, under the guise of wage protectionism, the Clinton administration got legislation passed that made it far more difficult for immigrants to get a work visa. The concern was that a foreign worker would work in the US for less. Result overall: Jobs instead went overseas.Impact in science; we now spend $5 billion a year on STEM programs, trying to convince American children who are inclined to be doctors that they should instead be scientists, while foreign science students educated in the US are forced to go back home where they become competitors to the US. read more