Mayors, CEOs work to keep skilled foreign students, entrepreneurs Chinese applicants wait for issuance of U.S. travel visas. Difficulty in getting such visas concerns tourism industry leaders in Tennessee and elsewhere. America’s eagerness to compete on the world stage over the past 200 years, along with its constitutional freedoms, made it into the pre-eminent economic [...] Read more »
Business targets skilled workers
A new push to get immigration reform past a stalled Congress is coming from employers hungry for highly skilled workers. A business group declares that, rather than taking jobs away from Americans, reform will improve the economy and spur employment. “We have huge shortages,” said an aide to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who heads [...] Read more »
Group pushes reforms to attract skilled foreigners
With efforts to reform immigration in broad strokes blocked in Congress, a group led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to convince Nashville leaders to back new visa rules and other smaller reforms meant to help business. The Partnership for a New American Economy, a group of mayors and business leaders who favor [...] Read more »
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