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Diogenes (Diogenes@nospam-ev1.net) wrote:
: Where in Texas (or Earth, for that matter) is the best city as far as
: employment is concerned?
: 

If you're in IT, Houston's NOT the place to find work:

   http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1582876
   HoustonChronicle.com - Working: 
   Computer professionals, at crossroads, take new path

IT jobs are going the way of most manufacturing jobs before them:

   http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/08/26/daily56.html
   Intel holds job fairs for 'redeployed' employees, while hiring overseas -

  "Intel Corp., Oregon's largest technology employer, is proceeding with
   previously announced job cuts, while hiring software engineers for its
   development center in India..."

There hasn't been any IT jobless data since January, 2002, because
the BLS doesn't want to release inaccurate data:

   http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020215S0012
   InformationWeek > IT Jobless Rate > IT Jobless Rate On Rise Again >
   February 15, 2002

  "Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data reveals that unemployment
   among IT workers approached 6% in January, up from 4.4% in December
   and 2.7% in January 2001. The previous high was 5.5% in November..."

Since you said "Earth", try these job sites:
                                                                         
   o http://naukri.com/
     Naukri.com - India's largest jobs, careers and employment portal. 
     Over 50000 live jobs

   o http://monsterindia.com/
     Monsterindia.com -- More jobs for India.

But don't expect India to have an equivalent to the H-1B visa, called 
a government subsidy by Milton Friedman:

   http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/colum_article/articles/2002,0816-Donnelly.shtm
   ILW.COM - the immigration portal: 
   The H-1B is a Barrier to the IT Industry's Recovery

  "...During the last H-1B debate, Harris Miller, the head of the ITAA, 
   told an interviewer at the Chicago Tribune that the H-1B is a kind of
   "minor league", a farm team for the IT industry. This spring, I wrote
   to Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman, practically the
   patron saint of the free market, citing Miller's quote and asking:
   What is a subsidy?

   This is his reply: "The majority of H-1B immigrants do manage by hook
   or crook to get permanent residence and become citizens, so as a
   factual matter they are not a 'farm team' of indefinitely temporary
   workers.

   "Yet there is no doubt that the program is a benefit to their
   employers, enabling them to get workers at a lower wage and to that
   extent is a subsidy."

   When even MILTON FRIEDMAN says "there is no doubt" that the H-1B
   program is a subsidy, that ought to end the argument..."
 


--Jerry Leslie   (my opinions are strictly my own)
  Note: leslie@jrlvax.houston.rr.com is invalid for email