H-1B Hiring: Bias within Bias, Discrimination within Discrimination
By David North, February 10, 2017
The employers in the H-1B program (for foreign college grad workers, mostly in IT) say that they must have unlimited access to the world's best and brightest or else America's advances in technology will come to a screeching halt.
But what they, do, in fact, is to hire a remarkably high percentage of their workers who just happen to be:
Young,
Male, and
From just three southern Indian states.
The employers' objective, of course, is to cut costs, taking hundreds of thousands of good jobs from residents of the United States.
[India]
Residents of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka, as we will show, have 241 times the chance of being hired as an H-1B as the average resident of the world, excluding U.S. workers, who, of course, have zero chance of being hired in this program.
By definition,
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