{"id":1036253,"date":"2026-09-17T09:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036253"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:03:57","slug":"vance-says-h-1b-should-bring-actual-geniuses-not-lower-wage-replacements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/vance-says-h-1b-should-bring-actual-geniuses-not-lower-wage-replacements\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says H-1B should bring \u2018actual geniuses\u2019, not \u2018lower-wage\u2019 replacements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice President JD Vance said the H-1B visa programme should be used to bring \u201cactual geniuses\u201d to the US, rather than foreign workers who replace American employees at lower wages. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the \u201cAll-In Podcast\u201d, Vance said companies seeking H-1B workers should look for people who can \u201csignificantly enrich the tech ecosystem or the American economy\u201d.  \u201cYou\u2019re not just replacing one accountant who makes $60,000 with a lower-wage foreign accountant who makes $45,000 a year,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice President JD Vance said the H-1B visa programme should be used to bring \u201cactual geniuses\u201d to the US, rather than foreign workers who replace American employees at lower wages. Speaking on the \u201cAll-In Podcast\u201d, Vance said companies seeking H-1B workers should look for people who can \u201csignificantly enrich the tech ecosystem or the American economy\u201d. \u201cYou\u2019re not just replacing one accountant who makes $60,000 with a lower-wage foreign accountant who makes $45,000 a year,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036254,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036253\/revisions\/1036254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}