Your first reference was to health care services. Getting into nursing school is not a given, and is skewed in favor of foreigners to begin with. To avoid being waitlisted into a public subsidized (i.e., a state school) nursing school, a young woman I knew signed up for a private school. She was perfectly fine with the expected wages, and in fact had older relatives who had done well in nursing. But she had constant fights with the administration so that her classes would be taught in English rather than Tagalog ... turns out that 90% of the students were Filipino and the whole school was designed to successfully churn out nurses faster than the public schools. Most came with HB-1 visas attached to Kaiser or another large institution, with employment guaranteed upon graduation. And of course that feeds into DEI hiring, making further difficulties for locals to work in the field and needlessly depressing wages overall. Anyway, that's my anecdotal experience here in Cali. I've heard it's similar for Jamaicans on the East Coast.
Totally agree about schools de-emphasizing trade of all types. Industrial arts classes are disappearing left and right, and retiring teachers not being replaced. It'll be a lot of work before the education system mindset can be overhauled to fit reality instead of shoveling grads into college debt traps.
The people I'm talking about get their certification in their home country, so I don't see how the situation here bears on that. But it is strange that they would be taught in Tagalog when the clientele here mainly speaks English. In my wife's experience, if you can't speak English, you are unemployable. It could be a regional difference. The foreign community in the Seattle area commonly speak English and understand it is the language of business.
Yeah, this was L.A. The situation I described really only speaks to the fact that the importation of foreign workers has become institutionalized. Quotas on the overall number of nursing licenses combined with preferential treatment for immigrants have a real effect and prevent locals from working these careers, but I'm sure the ways these obstacles manifest varies by state.
The workplace language is still English, but just like you commonly hear Spanish in the kitchens of many (most?) restaurants, it's pretty common here to hear Tagalog in hospital hallways and it's become more pervasive over the years.
Sounds like the preferential treatment could be addressed. That is discriminatory.
Here's a concept: Tariffs are on goods...and services? If the work is done by a foreign worker (i.e., a citizen of that country), would it not follow that their salary is subject to tariff? Because this is only outsourcing, except they have brought it into our borders. If they naturalize, the tariff would no longer apply. Hmm... The more I think about this, the more I like it.
Harder to enforce, and a few tricky concepts. What about a US engineer, for example, who normally works in the US but goes to Canada to take care of relatives for 6 months? Or an inspector who routinely travels to foreign countries. Subject to tariffs or not? Worth thinking about - for example I hate US municipal governments that outsource their customer service departments to India and would love for that to stop ...
Your first reference was to health care services. Getting into nursing school is not a given, and is skewed in favor of foreigners to begin with. To avoid being waitlisted into a public subsidized (i.e., a state school) nursing school, a young woman I knew signed up for a private school. She was perfectly fine with the expected wages, and in fact had older relatives who had done well in nursing. But she had constant fights with the administration so that her classes would be taught in English rather than Tagalog ... turns out that 90% of the students were Filipino and the whole school was designed to successfully churn out nurses faster than the public schools. Most came with HB-1 visas attached to Kaiser or another large institution, with employment guaranteed upon graduation. And of course that feeds into DEI hiring, making further difficulties for locals to work in the field and needlessly depressing wages overall. Anyway, that's my anecdotal experience here in Cali. I've heard it's similar for Jamaicans on the East Coast.
Totally agree about schools de-emphasizing trade of all types. Industrial arts classes are disappearing left and right, and retiring teachers not being replaced. It'll be a lot of work before the education system mindset can be overhauled to fit reality instead of shoveling grads into college debt traps.
The people I'm talking about get their certification in their home country, so I don't see how the situation here bears on that. But it is strange that they would be taught in Tagalog when the clientele here mainly speaks English. In my wife's experience, if you can't speak English, you are unemployable. It could be a regional difference. The foreign community in the Seattle area commonly speak English and understand it is the language of business.
Yeah, this was L.A. The situation I described really only speaks to the fact that the importation of foreign workers has become institutionalized. Quotas on the overall number of nursing licenses combined with preferential treatment for immigrants have a real effect and prevent locals from working these careers, but I'm sure the ways these obstacles manifest varies by state.
The workplace language is still English, but just like you commonly hear Spanish in the kitchens of many (most?) restaurants, it's pretty common here to hear Tagalog in hospital hallways and it's become more pervasive over the years.
Sounds like the preferential treatment could be addressed. That is discriminatory.
Here's a concept: Tariffs are on goods...and services? If the work is done by a foreign worker (i.e., a citizen of that country), would it not follow that their salary is subject to tariff? Because this is only outsourcing, except they have brought it into our borders. If they naturalize, the tariff would no longer apply. Hmm... The more I think about this, the more I like it.
Harder to enforce, and a few tricky concepts. What about a US engineer, for example, who normally works in the US but goes to Canada to take care of relatives for 6 months? Or an inspector who routinely travels to foreign countries. Subject to tariffs or not? Worth thinking about - for example I hate US municipal governments that outsource their customer service departments to India and would love for that to stop ...