• MEDIA: Brookings Institution Holds Immigration Webinar With "Experts" C

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 14 12:18:15 2022
    PFIRDC.ORG' Kevin Lynn on whether Donald Trump regrets taking Jared
    Kushner's advice to downplay the National Question on the campaign
    trail against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: <URL:https://ustechworkers.com/brookings-institution-holds-immigration-webinar-with-experts-clueless-on-immigration-2/>
    | Another claim repeated throughout the webinar was "the DOD has a
    | STEM labor shortage," and Fox even commented there's a general labor
    | shortage for STEM talent. Really? That's difficult to believe
    | because according to the DOD's The STEM Workforce Needs for the
    | Department of Defense report there aren't any critical shortages of
    | STEM workers. In fact, "it is unlikely that the United States will
    | suffer from an overall shortage of scientists and engineers."
    | Further emphasizing that point, the report says there's "little
    | evidence that this issue will directly impact DOD's ability to meet
    | its personnel needs" and there's "no projected shortage of STEM
    | workers for DOD and its industrial contractor base." While granted
    | there are some exceptions, primarily for "specialized, but
    | important, areas -- such as cybersecurity and selected intelligence
    | fields," there's a relatively simple solution to the problem. Train
    | and provide job experience to U.S. citizens so they can do these
    | jobs! Recruiting more entry-level IT workers from abroad doesn't
    | equate to more cybersecurity specialists. Sadly, when General Votel
    | said, "it takes months to get people on board", it was more an
    | indictment of the DOD's infamous entrenched bureaucratic structure
    | than it was an attack on the volume of U.S. based STEM talent.

    Who is Trump's preferred pick to lead Defense.GOV and will he or she
    or they pass Mitch McConnell's muster?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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