from NumbersUSA
Senator Warner has continued to publicly support legislation that will seriously hurt the American STEM worker. Sen. Warner will be hosting Office Hours throughout the next few weeks where you will have the opportunity to tell him that his immigration policies are taking away jobs from Americans.
Tell Sen. Warners staff that you oppose the StartUp Act 2.0, a bill that would create 50,000 new visas for foreign-born students in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and 75,000 visas for immigrant entrepreneurs.
Supporters of the bill (big business owners and politicians) tell us that we need more foreign STEM workers because we dont have enough in the US today to compete with the world.
However, the truth is
-- 1.8 million Americans have engineering degrees but do not have an engineering job.
-- 101,000 American engineers are looking for a job and cannot find work at all.
-- Only about one third of native STEM professionals are currently employed in jobs closely related to their degrees.
-- Some two thirds of STEM workers are employed or are training for jobs in unrelated fields.
-- It is in the big businesses best interest to DECREASE wages by INCREASING the number of foreign workers who they can pay less than American STEM graduates.
Read about the study that proves we have no American-born STEM worker shortage.We talked extensively about the flaws of the bill in our webcast a few weeks ago including the creation of diploma mills and the influence of the billionaires club on immigration policy. Read my blog post here.
Here is a list of events for the end of June. Please take a few minutes out of your day to stand up for the American STEM worker!
Greensville/Emporia
WEDNESDAY JUNE 13
TIME: 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Richardson Public Library
100 Spring Street
Emporia, VA 23847
Goochland
MONDAY JUNE 18
TIME: 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Goochland County Administration Building, Conference Room #234
1800 Sandy Hook Road
Goochland, VA 23063
Harrisonburg
TUESDAY JUNE 19
TIME: 12:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Harrisonburg City Hall
409 S. Main St.
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Grayson
WEDNESDAY JUNE 20
TIME: 10:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m.
WHERE: Grayson County Public Library
147 S. Independence Ave.
Independence, VA 24348
Orange
WEDNESDAY JUNE 20
TIME: 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Town of Orange County Administration Building
112 West Main Street
Orange, VA 22960
Carroll
WEDNESDAY JUNE 20
TIME: 2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Carroll County Library
101 Beaver Dam Rd.
Hillsville, VA 24343
Bedford
WEDNESDAY JUNE 20
TIME: 2:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bedford Area Welcome Center
816 Burks Hill Road
Bedford, VA 24523
Wise
THURSDAY JUNE 21
TIME: 10:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m.
WHERE: Wise County Courthouse, Conference Room in the County Administrators Office
206 E. Main St.
Wise, VA 24293
Lancaster
THURSDAY JUNE 21
TIME: 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Lancaster Library
235 School Street
Kilmarnock, VA 22482
Louisa
THURSDAY JUNE 21
TIME: 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Louisa County Administration Building
1 Woolfolk Avenue
Louisa, VA 23093
Lee
THURSDAY JUNE 21
TIME: 2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Lee County Public Library
539 Joslyn Ave
Pennington Gap, VA 24277
Gloucester
THURSDAY JUNE 21
TIME: 2:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Gloucester County Library
6920 Main Street
Gloucester, VA 23061
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