U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office
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#2> departures outnumbered new hires last year [2025] by a ratio of 11 to one, resulting in a net loss of 4224 STEM Ph.D.s
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Yup, so that we can loose our innovation edge and loose the next Apple, Google or Nvidia. Amazing plan.
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Yup, so that we can loose our innovation edge and loose the next Apple, Google or Nvidia. Amazing plan.
There's a big difference between cutting off all foreign-born talent—and addressing the serious issue of graduate school turning into an immigration racket; the current issue with graduate degrees is a very close mirror to the issue with H1b worker visas. The abuse of both systems has harmed Americans—and to some extent the long-term health of the tech industry and the academy.
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Yup, so that we can loose our innovation edge and loose the next Apple, Google or Nvidia. Amazing plan.
There's a big difference between cutting off all foreign-born talent—and addressing the serious issue of graduate school turning into an immigration racket; the current issue with graduate degrees is a very close mirror to the issue with H1b worker visas. The abuse of both systems has harmed Americans—and to some extent the long-term health of the tech industry and the academy.
Would you be ok if the schools only allowed foreign students from certain countries?
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#9There have been a huge amount of cuts to the Veteran's Administration disguised. Hiring has been frozen, then people leave and their positions can't be filled, then they cut that position saying "it wasn't filled so wasn't needed".
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What problem are you hoping to fix by doing this?
I think for any proposal to change policy that has serious impacts on the economics of the country, we should really be very clear on what problem we see, how we plan to solve it, and what specific trade-offs we're making with our solutions.