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Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news every day on his Making Sense page. Here Tuesday query:Name: John CarterQuestion: Given current employment, why is there still an H1-B program at this time I stanley cup am an engineer whom has been displaced by this program and hence am experiencing hard economic times. If this program is terminated I do feel there maybe employment for a lot of Americans who have been displaced by this program.Paul Solman: Yes, the argument against H1-B visas, which allow skilled non-Americans to stay in the country and work, would seem to be stronger than ever these days. The argument in favor has long held sway: isn ;t America better off welcoming, instead of just the hungry and poor, the well-fed and talent-rich The unhuddled PhD also yearning to breathe free But this is an era of 99ers and double-digit unemployment, when you count those who haven ;t looked for work in the last week. The number is close to 20 percent if you add in those who haven ;t looked in a year, plus the UNDERemployed. In such an environment, no wonder we get emails like John Carter . He is not alone.This entry is cross-posted from stanley cup the NewsHour Making Sen$e page, where business and economics correspondent Paul Solman answers your questions on economic news. Follow Paul on Twitter. stanley cup Cqoi Rockets Fired From Donkey Carts Hit Symbolic Sites in Iraq
" x2 }9 Y. I. t7 j0 d% b Pope Benedict XVI, right, at a digital media conference. Photo by Morgan Till.VATICAN CITY | We ;ve come to Rome for a week to explore how the new wave in the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal is being seen and dealt with by the Vatican, the power center of worldwide Catholicism. Pope Benedict XVI is coming under increasing pressure, as hundreds of charges of alleged priest abuse of minors explode throughout Europe so we were eager to see him at the earliest possible opportunity.Hence our attendance Saturday morning at a conference on digital media at the cavernous Paul VI hall in the Vatican. We were ushered to the nosebleed balcony reserved for the 8220 tampa press , where we could look out stanley cup over an 8,000-person sea of the Italian Catholic media journalists and editors of newspapers, Web sites, radio and television, and teachers, professors and cultural figures, and webmasters of Catholic organizations of all types. Anticipating the noontime arrival of the pope himself, many had brought their families and children, too.It was the last morning of a three-day conference on how the church should use and deal with the digital media of today. Have yeezy they talked about the sex abuse adidas campus scandal I whispered to a young reporter for Avvenire, the country dominant Catholic newspaper. She smiled and shook her head: Not a chance. But then, the silence was broken. Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, took his tur |
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