{"id":196228,"date":"2008-05-15T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/15\/good-news-h-1b-changes-appear-dead-for-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T10:02:00","slug":"good-news-h-1b-changes-appear-dead-for-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/15\/good-news-h-1b-changes-appear-dead-for-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News: H-1b Changes Appear Dead for 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The H1b program as it is now structured is a bad program, because it is used primarily to get low cost work, as opposed to its stated purpose, which is to allow the employment of people with unique skill sets.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In any case, the Democrats have decided that an increase in the H1b limit, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9941962-7.html?tag=nl.e433\">the Dems have tied this to comprehensive immigration reform<\/a>, and the Republicans can&#8217;t go along with that, because their base is a bunch of racists.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">The fix is actually pretty simple:  Make the fees high enough that any H1B hired would be more expensive than a citizen or permanent resident.  At that point, the fraud stops.  You could auction off slots to set a price.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The H1b program as it is now structured is a bad program, because it is used primarily to get low cost work, as opposed to its stated purpose, which is to allow the employment of people with unique skill sets.* In any case, the Democrats have decided that an increase in the H1b limit, because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1053,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-immigration","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}