H-1B Visas: Needed or Not?
August 27, 2020
With President Trump reducing the number of H-1B visas awarded to skilled foreign workers, and presidential challenger Joe Biden promising to expand them, two Bloomberg Opinion columnists recently weighed in, staking out markedly different views. No stranger to this hot-button topic, Issues has presented arguments that the visa program has helped the country build a uniquely productive science and technology enterprise, as well as arguments that the nation produces enough of its own skilled workers so that targeted visa policies are unnecessary and perhaps even harmful.