Workforce Development Community Roundtable
Workforce Development Community Roundtable
Fri, Feb 3, 9:00 AM
DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education-OSSE EH Norton Conference Center • Washington, DC
Free
Actions Panel
STEM Power Lunch: Immigration Reform, Tool for Expanding Workforce, Economy
By STEM4US!
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U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Room HVC-200 Washington, DC
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Description
Immigration Reform
Tech Sector’s Tool for Growing
The STEM Workforce & U.S. Economy
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 1pm-3pm
U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Room HVC-200
Washington, D.C. 20510
Confirmed Members of Congress
- U.S. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX) - Ranking Member, House Science, Technology Committee
- Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA) - Ranking Member, House Immigration Subcommittee
- Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (NY) - Chair, CBC Immigration Taskforce
Confirmed Panelists
- Kevin Richards - TechAmerica, Vice President of Federal Government Affairs
- Lezli Baskerville - National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, President & CEO
- Peter J. Muller - Intel Corporation, Director of Government Relations
- Michael Petricone - Consumer Electronics Association, Sr. Vice President of Government Affairs
- Paula Collins - Vice President for Government Relations, Texas Instruments
- Susan J. Cohen - Chair, Immigration Practice, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (Event Co-Sponsor)
Confirmed Moderator: Phillip Yin - CCTV America
Background
Join Members of Congress, tech, and nonprofit leaders to discuss immigration reform legislation designed to increase the United States’ capacity to produce skilled workers to meet the growing demand to fill high-skilled jobs in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields in the United States. Some of the policy issues the panelists plan to address include unlimited green cards for STEM Ph.D.’s; requiring employers applying for H-1B visas to prove that they’ve made a good faith effort to identify and hire American workers; and the creation of a STEM fund to increase the nation’s ranks of American-born STEM workers.
According to a Brookings Institute study, more than 120,000 jobs are created annually in the U.S. that requires workers with Bachelors of Science degrees. However, the more than 3,000 U.S. colleges and universities produce just 40,000 science graduates each year. Many business leaders argue that his gap of 80,000 tech workers leaves them no other choice but to import workers from outside the United States. Conversely, labor and education advocates argue that more should be done to invest in, and retrain, U.S. workers—particularly unemployed college grads without science degrees, even lawyers. The Power Lunch aims to serve as an opportunity for advocates and other stakeholders to discuss strategies to address this workforce dilemma with federal lawmakers.