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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fascinating scoop by Mike Allen at Axios. Apparently, both parties are aiming to crack down on major tech companies in the name of national security.

In addition, the GOP thinks this is something they can run on in 2018 by portraying tech companies as beholden to "open borders" and "liberal policies"

https://www.axios.com/both-parties-to-move-on-facebook-and-other-tech-giants-2486665876.html

Any local DCUM'ers have the scoop on what's happening behind the scenes? This will be a big lobbying fail for the tech companies.
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Zuckerberg should be stopped from firing older workers.  To be fair, that quote about old losers is from way back in 2007, when Zuck was but a grown child of 22 and not yet media trained. That was when [b]Zuck said: “Young people are just smarter.”[/b]

Another dirty little secret in all this is that the H-1B program is an enabler of rampant age discrimination in the tech industry. Age is actually one of the core issues in H-1B. Mind you, we are talking about age 35 as being “old” here, not 55. Almost all the H-1Bs are young, and younger is cheaper. And young H-1Bs are even cheaper than young Americans.  Age gives employers an excuse to shun American applicants, on the grounds that a given job opening requires only three to five years of experience, rendering the Americans “overqualified.” Or the employer will load the job description with unnecessary requirements, making the Americans simultaneously under- and overqualified. That doesn’t leave much room, does it?

A former manager at Oracle accused the firm of justifying underpayment of an H-1B by saying, ‘It’s good money for an Indian.’

[b]We have a surplus of computer science PhDs; 11.3 percent of them are involuntarily working in a non-computer science field.[/b]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-h-1b_us_5890d86ce4b0522c7d3d84af[/quote]

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