Report Shows that Our Government Uses More than 2,000 H-1B Workers
By David North on December 2, 2019
I cannot improve on this sentence by Laura Francis of Bloomberg News:
An attempt by the Labor Department to shine a light on companies that bring on board foreign workers with the help of oft-criticized third-party placement firms has outed an unexpected employer — the federal government.
Francis was writing about the use of H-1B workers hired indirectly by various government agencies, seemingly in conflict with the Trump administration's "Hire American" proclamations. She and two colleagues (Jasmine Ye Han and Christina Brady) at Bloomberg poured over a new data set that not only shows corporations' hiring of H-1Bs directly, it also shows indirect hires through the largely Indian outsourcing firms.
Their findings:
https://cis.org/North/Report-Shows-Our-Government-Uses-More-2000-H1B-Workers