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Right after the President’s speech in Las Vegas today, ITI’s Dean Garfield was on Bloomberg TV with the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh and Bloomberg’s Hans Nichols. While a host tried to put Dean and Alex at odds with each other, it turns out that they agree on many of the bipartisan proposals put forward in the last couple of days. You can watch the interview on the Bloomberg TV website. Highlights [...]
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Politico Pro and ITI member Cognizant co-hosted a great conversation this morning focused on immigration, technology, and the 113th Congress. ITI's Dean Garfield was a panelist, and made the case that there is bipartisan support in Congress for high-skilled immigration reform, and, if done right, such an approach can lead to a stronger economy and greater job creation across the country. In his remarks, [...]
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“Our top priority has to be jobs and growth . . . providing more Americans the chance to learn the skills that businesses are looking for right now; keeping this country at the forefront of research, technology and clean energy.” That’s how President Obama opened his first post-election news conference, before spending the majority of time talking about anything but job creation. Ok, in the President’s [...]
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Bloomberg today came out in favor of bipartisan Senate legislation that has ITI's backing -- the recently introduced Startup 2.0 Act. In its editorial, Bloomberg highlights the competitive disadvantage that the United States faces because of an arbitrary, outmoded immigration system. During the next five years, 100,000 immigrants – many with advanced degrees – will leave America and take their innovative [...]