{"id":10635,"date":"2024-12-31T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=10635"},"modified":"2024-12-31T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:47:10","slug":"rep-eric-schmitt-r-mo-on-h-1b-program-american-workers-have-been-left-behind-by-this-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=10635","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) on H-1B program: \u2018American workers have been left behind by this economy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/sunday-talk-shows\/5058972-schmitt-h-1b-program-american-workers-have-been-left-behind-by-this-economy\/\">READ HERE:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt (Mo.) said that U.S. workers \u201chave been left behind by this economy\u201d during a discussion on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d about the H-1B work visa, a key program to attract international talent that\u2019s been criticized as too complicated and susceptible to abuse.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with host\u00a0<span class=\"person-popover\" data-nid=\"62360\"><a class=\"person-popover__link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/shannon-bream\/\">Shannon Bream,<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Schmitt was asked about the recent debate about the H-1B work visa on the social platform X, which has intensified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is an important, thoughtful debate that\u2019s happening, but the context that we need to, I think, keep in mind here is that the American workers have been left behind by this economy,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany factory jobs have been sent overseas, and I think the abuses of the H-1B program have been evident, where you have sort of the sons and daughters of those factory workers lost their jobs, got white-collar jobs as accountants and they are \u2026 training their replacements, the foreign workers who are undercutting their wages,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}