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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 29, 2017, 08:50:56 pm

Title: Trump Can Create 180,000 New Jobs for Americans — by Using that Pen!
Post by: rangerrebew on January 29, 2017, 08:50:56 pm
 Trump Can Create 180,000 New Jobs for Americans — by Using that Pen!

By David North, January 26, 2017
 

President Trump saved several thousand factory jobs by brow-beating some CEOs, but he could also do something much more useful: He could create about 180,000 new jobs for American college grads just by abolishing an obscure bit of the immigration machinery.

Here's a way to help the middle class without dealing with Congress; the president can do it with a stroke of the pen. It would not be a question of saving existing jobs (as in the case of the factory workers) it would lead to the creation of an additional 180,000 jobs for U.S. residents. Good jobs, too.

Currently, thanks to prior administrations, there is a generally unknown program in which the federal government subsidizes (through tax breaks) the hiring of 180,000 foreign college grads, taking jobs that could be held by Americans. It has the misleading title of Optional Practical Training (OPT) as there is no training involved, and though dedicated to foreign college graduates, it is disguised as part of the F-1 program for foreign students.

http://cis.org/north/trump-can-create-180000-new-jobs-americans-using-pen
Title: Re: Trump Can Create 180,000 New Jobs for Americans — by Using that Pen!
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on January 29, 2017, 08:54:32 pm
He's from the government and he's here to help right?
Title: Re: Trump Can Create 180,000 New Jobs for Americans — by Using that Pen!
Post by: geronl on January 29, 2017, 09:06:54 pm
Many of those jobs won't exist without the subsidy probably, but let the alt.truth fools pretend they will.
Title: Re: Trump Can Create 180,000 New Jobs for Americans — by Using that Pen!
Post by: ABX on January 29, 2017, 09:12:17 pm
He's from the government and he's here to help right?

Damn, took the words right out of my mouth.
Title: Re: Trump Can Create 180,000 New Jobs for Americans — by Using that Pen!
Post by: endicom on January 29, 2017, 09:23:15 pm
He's from the government and he's here to help right?


If the situation is as presented then Trump would be removing a government program/subsidy by taking action.

Yet, the usual suspects will object to that action because Trump. Amazing.