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A 5 page paper that looks at America's current practice of importing high-tech workers from foreign countries and explores the reasons why this practice has become necessary if America is to stay competitive in the technological world of the 21st century. Discussed are the options that the HI-TECH Act of 2000 will make available on both a short term and a long term basis. Views held by the opposition are included. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_LCHiTech.doc
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gates of opportunity and beckoned the world to enter and pursue life, liberty and happiness upon her soil and to help shape this country into a successful nation. Later,
as she reached a level of both maturity and power, America saw the need to check those gates and limit the number of alien immigrants allowed upon her shores.
Now, as America enters the twenty-first century, the need has arisen to break the locks, once again fling the gates wide, and beckon toward foreign shores if this successful nation
is to maintain her success. The monumental growth of the IT, or information technology, industry over the past decade has shown that Americas present workforce is ill prepared to
cope with the high-tech demands of this new industry. Compared to the highly specialized skills possessed by workforce members of foreign nations, America lags seriously behind.
In the years since 1993, the world of information technology has grown at an unprecedented and unpredicted high rate of speed. According to William T.
Archey, president of the American Electronics Association, over one million jobs were created in the United States economy by this industry between the years of 1993 and 1998 (1999; PG).
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has predicted that by the year 2006 computer-related jobs in this country will have reached a total of 2.5 million, a total double that
of the 1.2 million reported in 1996 (PG). It would seem that the creation of so many new jobs within Americas economy would boost this country and place her
among the ranks of the technological leaders of the world, and it would if this nations workers were prepared to meet the challenges these new jobs present. But, sadly,
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