America losing ground in global competition for college-educated workers

Republicans have hated colleges since Nixon got in office. All of their politicians make a point to go and send their family to be educated, then turn around and criticize it as "unnecessary"... If it was so unnecessary, how come they go? why do their kids go to the best and most expensive schools (majoring in nothing)? No matter what the republicans pitch, an education gives you the flexibility to get a new career or adapt to changing job climates.

Guess the exception to that is Palin...the new republican dream girl...dumb just like she likes her constituents to be.

I knew I should have take that job at chippendales instead of going 2 collge :(

Death-By-F­oreign-Nat­ional is not laissez-fa­ire!

Death-By-F­oreign-Nat­ional is not free-marke­t!

MNCs' are not [supposed to be] in charge of U.S. immigratio­n.

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MUMBAI: US diplomat Peter Haas, recently appointed consul-general in Mumbai, stressed the importance of people-to-people contact in Indo-US ties.

US-India people-to-people connections are more powerful than any government initiative, said Haas. "While 8 lakh Americans travel to India each year, the US issues half a million non-immigration visas to Indians yearly," he said adding that Indian citizens formed the largest group of people to be issued H1B and L visas by the US over the last year.

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How, can anyone speak of returning jobs to Americans, while they ignore the continued replacement of Americans, in American offices and worksites, with foreign nationals, at a ‘clip of’ hundreds of thousands per year?!

There are real solutions, not lies masquerading as same...

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The J-1 student work-travel program was created in 1961 to offer work opportunities and cultural enrichment for foreign students, and in the process, create goodwill ambassadors for the United States.

Today, students from Poland, China, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus sign up and pay thousands of dollars for the privilege of meeting Americans and practicing English.

But the kids aren’t working in professional settings that complement their studies. They’re toiling in warehouses for huge companies such as Hershey’s, which have laid off hundreds of workers, and resorts, from Disney World to Morey’s Pier in Wildwood, and for much lower wages than Americans earned doing the same tasks.

Companies who hire J-1s are not required to advertise to American workers first. It’s a great deal for U.S. companies, because they don’t have to pay payroll taxes, Social Security or health insurance for J-1s.

One Spring Lake staffing company even has a nifty calculator to help businesses compare the costs of hiring J-1 vs. American workers.

Gee, thanks, fellas. During one of the most vicious unemployment downturns in memory, this is spitting in the eye of jobless Americans.

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H-1b, L-1s, OPT, J-1, B-1, lotteries, green-cards, and on and on, it is no longer enough to stand as a nation and compete with the world-at-large, but no, the world at large will be brought to you, so that you may compete with them in your own offices and worksites...

We won’t even talk about national security!

In a sane world, visas such as H-1b, (also referred to, incorrectly, as H1b…) L-1, etc., would be suspended. Millions of our better paying jobs would be instantly made available, in America, for Americans.

Over two (2) decades of alphabet-soup visas like H-1b, etc., have decimated the tech sector, and are impacting others, such as health and medicine, education, etc.

We should also revoke some or all green-cards. Again, a massive number of American jobs would be returned to Americans.

And then there is the issue of sending our jobs offshore, often implemented by those brought to our country on visa, or those having become a green-card holder, who then coordinate the shipping of entire departments, knowledge-bases out of our country, ultimately, entire industries.

Then for the low to medium wage jobs, we can look at the wide-open borders, and the traitors that advocate a nation without enforcement of its own borders, its laws, and disinterest in its own sovereign best-interest, survival.

And yes, it is Americans who have facilitated this betrayal of Americans, by corporations, supported by a sold-out government and press.

And yet, jobs that require tertiary education and getting more competitive. It seems like the problem is not the job market but the employers. Also, with the vast amount of knowledge and a platform for so many people to share their talents and knowledge (the internet), it seems like sometimes the better person might not necessarily have received formal education.

The main difference we need to be looking at is QUALITY vs. QUANTITY. We have tons of people getting cranked out of colleges here. The majority basically have the equivalent of a high school degree of what kids had in the 1950's-1970's. Saying the same thing.....kids back in the day had a far better education in high school than do they do now. Nowadays youth need to go to college just to get the basics. That is what happens when you teach to a test for so many decades. You killed off any critical thinking skills and made a bunch of lemmings that only know how to copy answers. Most other countries have far fewer people in college that graduate. However, their skills sets are typically far more advanced for comparable graduate degrees than the US. Basically we need to do what they do. We need to cut back on the amount of kids in college because they really need to learn these skills in high school. The one that do go to college....they will be the top performers that will compete with the rest of the world. Its time to change our crappy education system folks....and we spend waaay to much on it for poorer returns

I have been listening to reports from various Media outlets stating that our College bound students in the new economy and the younger generation of resident and immigrants flocking from all Latin America are not happy about the economic forcast in California. Most considered and know someone with either a BA or Masters to not be employable - due to the fact you were born in the USA. The goal, in my opinion, was to throw the American economy completely under the bus, to then reclaim it for all the "world citizens" to have a right to study, reside and work (take American citizens jobs) in America. The ultimate goal is for Corporations to control the game of survival between continents. Once the goal is achieved further Totalitarian control with all its bells and whistles to come to fruition. Nobody will have rights. We will be "world slaves".

In countries like Korea, Japan, and China, the percentage doesn't really speak the true story. Many more of the young people in these countries have the desire to go to college, but are rejected by the highly competitive entrance exam process. In this country, almost everyone can be accepted into some sort of "college" as long as you are able to pay for it.

With most foreign students getting their tuition paid for by their governments, instate tuition, and other benefits that US students don't get. Tuition is out of control at most schools. 40K+ a year shows that.

I dont find any of this a surprise. Most of todays kids get through public schools without knowing how to read and write or have basic knowledge of history or current events. We are a bunch of dummies and we are getting dumber all the time. Children with adequate knowledge to go on to a college are facing financial debts that our country is today lacking the means to repay after graduation (JOBS)

I was a high school dropout. At the age of 36 I started on a Biology degree and finished it last year. I am 42 now with a ton of student loans to pay. I have been looking for a job now for over a year and am unable to get even a minimum wage part time position. I realize most of my issues are due to bad economic timing but i am now living the worst case scenario. The whole time i was grinding through my #$%$ program all people kept telling me was.... its going to pay off, its going to pay off, what you are doing is so great!Well.... Being a college educated woker isnt all its cracked up to anymore. It the biggest mistake i have ever made.

Lets stop with academia and get back to making something that the U.S.A. can sell around the world.

MOST COLLAGE TEACHERS DON'T TEACH THEY HAVE STUDENTS DO IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Could it be because the dumb teachers that can't be fired are dumbing down our kids,and have been for years?

It's actually worse than described, because this graph does not address quality. Relatively speaking, it's much easier academically to get a degree in the USA than for example Germany. OTOH on the graduate school level and beyond we still have some outstanding schools.

most young people know it all just ask them. the main problem is with schools under goverment control ,don't forget the teachers went to these same schools. now who do we blame teacher 's right it's they're . if they get more money they will do a better job teaching .remember most have never in the real world AMEN !!!!!!

It was Richard NIXON who betrayed American workers and opened China to take jobs and trade. The GOP mantra has always been FREE TRADE but what American needed was WISE trade policies. Markets NEVER control themselves. Reagan was WRONG to deregulate and Reaganomics laid the Foundation for the current economic collapse and every Republican presdient since has damaged America by following him.

Please tell me what purpose this article served ?

A degree does not guarantee employment.

Wow another excuse for the CEOs to move factories to China, what a bunch of crap, if this was true why are the chinese coming to US colleges

Most of the people in America with college degrees are not educated. They have a degree they can use to wipe their #$%$ I interview college-educated people who can't write a simple sentence.