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...Thankfully, the provision, which would have taxed companies for trying to recruit top talent to America, appears to have vanished in conference committee in the last few days. The controversy over fees, however, is a red herring in the H-1B debate. The real issue is the H-1B cap, which is currently at 65,000 visas. Last year, 133,000 people applied for the available spots on the very first day, forcing the government to conduct a lottery for the highly demanded visas. This is extremely problematic. Foreign-born skilled workers and students provide considerable benefits to the American...
Best of all, we might start to take defeat with a smile and a tip of the cap, humbled but unbowed, without a hail of “Bronx cheers” or chants of “safety school.” For a school supposedly comprised of the world’s greatest, we could all stand to show some class...
...This is regrettable because it is an arbitrary cap that replaces a standard accounting-audit-based system of determining the actual overhead it costs to produce the research that we do,” Casey said yesterday. “Establishing a uniform cap is not a policy based on sound reasoning...
Casey said it would be difficult to determine the exact financial effects of the congressional cap, as it is not yet clear precisely which expenses will be subject to the cap...
...We’ve actually had some success,” he added, noting that the proposed cap had nearly doubled from 20 to 35 percent...