Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
In response to a growing need for specialized workers, Congress set up the H-1B visa program in 1990 to help U.S. companies recruit foreign workers if they lacked qualified American applicants. But of the top 20 companies that were granted visas in 2014, only seven were non-outsourcing firms based in the United States. We discuss the growing influence of global outsourcing companies and their role in a visa system meant to assist American business.
Guests
- Ron Hira Assistant Professor, Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology; Author, "Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs" (AMACOM)
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