FEATURE
Study Finds H-1B Visa Limits Hamper U.S. Economy
June 6, 2014 | San Francisco Chronicle
Capping the number of visas issued to foreign-born tech workers restricts the number of U.S-born workers that firms could hire - and the Bay Area is feeling the brunt of that impact, according to a new study. Tech interests have long wanted to increase the number of temporary guest worker visas, known as H-1B visas, arguing there's a shortage of qualified U.S. tech workers to fill available jobs. This year, applications for 85,000 available H-1B visas hit the limit in five days.
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Learning With MOOCs
June 5, 2014 | New York Times
MASSIVE Open Online Courses — or MOOCs — are a snowballing revolution in education. Thousands of courses from some of the world’s finest institutions are available free online, covering everything from astrophysics to the arts. For each course, students, sometimes numbering in the thousands, take part from home — where they view video lectures, take tests and submit essays through a Web interface. It’s a digital classroom with no actual “room,” and where you can study more or less when you like.
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Loss of High-skilled Immigrants Hurts Job Growth
June 5, 2014 | Kansas City Star
H-1B visa denials in 2007 and 2008 meant that as many as 230,000 spinoff tech jobs for American-born workers weren’t created in U.S. metro areas. That cost U.S.-born, college-educated workers in computer-related fields as much as $3 billion in aggregate annual earnings. The report said Kansas City, among more than 200 metropolitan areas studied, ranked in the top 25 for potential jobs lost because area employers didn’t hire high-tech immigrants whose employment would have been catalysts for other jobs.
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Crowdfunding Unfolding
June 5, 2014 | c4trends
Crowdfunding is disrupting the relationship between entrepreneurs, the money raising ecosystem and investors. Kickstarter, Indiegogo and other sites are helping innovators to build businesses and leverage funding with more than 200 online crowdfunding platforms in the U.S. alone.
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