The United States must grow domestic sources of talent, and our member organizations are committed to improving U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and encouraging more young Americans to choose careers in those fields. Click here (link to pdf) to read our "Education & Workforce Principles."
In addition to donations and state and local taxes supporting education, U.S. companies have contributed over $2.3 billion through H-1B fees to U.S. math and science scholarships and U.S. worker training since fiscal year 2000. These fees have funded...
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee wants high-skilled immigrants to make our economy stronger
"It is one of the great American stories, repeated countless times over decades. An immigrant to the US, sitting in a lab or a company or even at home, working to start a company that ends up becoming a great American success story. Some of our greatest companies began exactly this way. And immigrants today have great ideas that can change the world. The question is whether they will develop them in the United States or somewhere else."