Computer and Engineering Workforce Shortage

Each year more and more American workforce is considered ineffective in addressing American digital challenges. Often the source of information promotes the need for foreign-born workforce to address the challenges. The following was discovered during a routine seach of workforce strategies for American urban communities and we would appreciate your comments on the issue.


ABSTRACT
This report presents projections of the foreign-born computing and engineering (C&E)  workforce that recent Senate legislation could admit in the next one, two, five, and ten years. Most public controversy has focused on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act’s (S.2611) process for resident undocumented aliens (passed last May 25, 2006). But there also are numerous reforms to highly skilled admissions. The projections suggest that the legislation could admit an immigrant computing and engineering workforce that is just more than 5 times greater than today’s levels of admission. And the projection of immigrants under S.2611 exceeds the total foreign-born labor force in C&E that is consistent with projections of future employment demand by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The legislation could admit foreign computing and engineering workers in numbers much greater than historical trends or casual assumptions about future employment. (Read more)

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