{"id":916255,"date":"2025-03-22T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T02:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=916255"},"modified":"2025-03-22T08:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:06:31","slug":"debate-over-h-1b-visas-shines-spotlight-on-us-tech-worker-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/22\/debate-over-h-1b-visas-shines-spotlight-on-us-tech-worker-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate over H-1B visas shines spotlight on US tech worker shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heated debate has recently erupted between two groups of supporters of President Donald Trump. The dispute concerns the H-1B visa system, the program that allows US employers to hire skilled foreign workers in specialty occupations \u2013 mostly in the tech industry. <\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, there are people like Donald Trump\u2019s former strategist Steve Bannon, who has called the H-1B program a \u201ctotal and complete scam.\u201d On the other, there are tech tycoons like Elon Musk who think skilled foreign workers are crucial to the US tech sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heated debate has recently erupted between two groups of supporters of President Donald Trump. The dispute concerns the H-1B visa system, the program that allows US employers to hire skilled foreign workers in specialty occupations \u2013 mostly in the tech industry. On the one hand, there are people like Donald Trump\u2019s former strategist Steve Bannon, who has called the H-1B program a \u201ctotal and complete scam.\u201d On the other, there are tech tycoons like Elon Musk who think skilled foreign workers are crucial to the US tech sector.<\/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":[77,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916255","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=916255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}