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		<title><![CDATA[The Rise of Protectionism]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The voices of ignorance ("Buy American") and  prejudice ("Limit visas") have grown predictably louder  during the current crisis. Fortunately, reason and the forces of globalization  have managed to prevail. So far.  Buy American     Take the Buy American provisions. In the original House...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reverse Brain Drain: Is It a Threat?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  	The Find: An extended interview with two experts reveals the increasing number of highly skills immigrants who are returning to their home countries and discusses whether the phenomenon represents a threat to U.S. business.  	The Source: A WorldFocus internet radio interview of Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Investing in the Innovation Economy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard Business School professor Bill George has a Santa's Wish List for incoming President Barack Obama. You won't find a 3G iPhone or a Wii Fit on the list, but there are seven ideas that George believes can get the economy going again.    The idea is to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pfizer Donated to Senators Who Supported H-1B Visa Expansion]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000504/pfizer-donated-to-senators-who-supported-h-1b-visa-expansion/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Pfizer donated tens of thousands of dollars to Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and those senators supported an expansion of the H-1B visa program that allows foreign workers to beÂ  brought to the US to do technical jobs, according to New London's The Day. Coincidentally, Pfizer has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:56:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pfizer Worries Spur Probe Into Use of Immigrant Workers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After noting a trend at Pfizer's Groton and New London, Conn., R&D campuses, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., said he will call for a Congressional probe into whether American companies are abusing the H-1B visa process to bring foreign workers to the U.S. in an attempt to displace locally contracted...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:38:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech Roundup: Entellium Arrests, Verizon Support, H-1B Fraud, More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FBI arrests Entellium CEO, CFO -- The FBI arrested Entellium's CEO Paul Thomas Johnson and CFO Parrish Jones for allegedly falsifying revenue figures and presenting them to the board as part of a scheme to get about $50 million invested in the company. Last month an employee cleaning out the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Grow Your Own Workforce]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With skill shortages hitting many sectors of the workplace, it's no wonder that managers are having difficulty expanding their teams. But who says talent has to come from the outside? Workforce Management recently profiled one company that implemented an innovative and successful effort to grow its own talent instead. ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[US hits quota on visas for professionals; random lottery set]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200804/ai_n25134370]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; US authorities said Tuesday they had received too many applications for a visa program for skilled workers for the coming year, meaning a random lottery will determine the winners.  The completion of the 65,000 annual quota for the H-1B visa program, used for many high-tech professionals,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[H-1B Visas Remain Sore Point for All Sides]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10006/h-1b-visas-remain-sore-point-for-all-sides/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For the fifth year in a row, the federal limit on H-1B visas has been reached before the government's fiscal year even begins.    This time, the cap was reached nearly six months before the federal 2009 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1. It took only one week...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:25:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DHS drafting rule to halt multiple H-1B visa applications]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3495/is_4_53/ai_n25358103]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security DHS is drafting a regulation that would prohibit employers from filing more than one H-1B visa application for a foreign national, according to DHS Assistant Secretary Julie Myers, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New York City Staffing Company Charged With Violating H-1B Program Following U.S. Labor Department Finding Almost $3 Million in Back Wages Due 156 Workers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: John M. Chavez of U.S. Department of Labor, +1-617-565- 2075  Advanced Professional Marketing Inc. also assessed civil penalty of $512,000 NEW YORK, March 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Advanced Professional Marketing Inc. APMI, a medical staffing company based in New York City, and the companys president, Marissa...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B Visas]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B VisasDisagreeEconomics will always win at the end of the day!RE: Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B VisasMy experience in recruiting visa canaidates whas pure supply and demand. We did not have a different pay scale, and tended hire a range of experienced...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gates urges more tech worker visas]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200803/ai_n24929564]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday asked Congress to make it easier for tech companies to hire foreign workers -- even though some members of Congress want to make it harder.     Gates, testifying before the House Committee on Science and Technology, said that the USA faces...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B Visas]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1114]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an extremely complicated issue, and it's been around for years, but let's talk some common sense about H-1B visas. Bill Gates went before Congress this week to try to make it easier for companies to hire foreign tech workers, using this visa status. Essentially, companies can bring in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:23:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[VISANOW Delivers for Diebold During H-1B Visa Preparation Crunch]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Feb_19/ai_n24266498]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading Immigration Services Provider Offers Accelerated Application Preparation during Critical H-1B Filing Period]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Visas present business opportunities, challenges]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3718/is_20071221/ai_n21215434]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SYRACUSE - Most companies looking at hiring someone from another country are discouraged before the process even starts. But there's no reason to be, said Andrea Godfread-Brown, an attorney and associate director for the Slutzker Center for International Services at Syracuse University SU. "The process is a manageable one," she...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SIA, IEEE put aside differences to press Congress for H-1B visa reform (Electronic News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5934/is_200710/ai_n23910971]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Evidencing the importance with which the tech industry views the issue of immigration reform, the Semiconductor Industry Association http://www.sia-online.org SIA and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-USA http://www.ieee.org/po      Evidencing the importance with which the tech industry views the issue of immigration reform, the Semiconductor...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Debunking the IT Shortage Myth]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=528]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[While Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are lobbying Congress to increase the number of H-1B temporary worker visas so they can meet what they describe as a shortage of skilled technology workers, many skilled technology workers who are already in the U.S. are reporting having trouble finding jobs. InformationWeek recently explored...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:46:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Google puts weight behind H-1B visa reform (Electronic News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5934/is_200706/ai_n23910121]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Inc. http://www.google.com has thrown its considerable weight behind the skilled worker immigration cause, lobbying the United States Congress this week for H-1B visa reform.      Google Inc. http://www.google.com has thrown its considerable weight behind the skilled worker immigration cause, lobbying the United States Congress this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cambridge, Mass.-Based International IT Company Agrees to Pay $2.4 Million to Underpaid H-1B Non-Immigrant Workers Following U.S. Labor Department Investigation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200706/ai_n21904282]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: LABOR EDITORSContact: John M. Chavez of the U.S. Department of Labor, +1-617- 565-2075 BOSTON, June 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patni Computer Systems Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., has agreed to pay more than $2.4 million to 607 non- immigrant workers following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor. An investigation...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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