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LESLIE@JRLVAX.HOUSTON.RR.COM (Jerry Leslie) wrote in message news:<rCFi9.284494$eK6.8213946@twister.austin.rr.com>...
> 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

I don't know where in this country IT is any good right now. Medical
is the field to be in right now, and Houston is the city for that.
Largest medical center district in the country, and good pay from what
I hear.




> 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