#labor-displacement

#labor-displacement

Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, is urging the state's universities to stop hiring international employees through the H-1B visa program. DeSantis said he wants the Florida board of governors to pull the plug on the practice. Nearly 400 foreign nationals are currently employed at Florida's public universities under the H-1B visa program, reported the Orlando Sentinel. Universities across the country are importing foreign workers on H-1B visas instead of hiring Americans who are qualified and available to do the job, said DeSantis in a statement.

It was the famous scene where Dustin Hoffman's character gets pulled aside by one of his parents' friends at his own college graduation party for some awkward career advice. "I just want to say one word to you," says the Mr. McGuire character, "Power." In the original scene, McGuire said, "plastics," reflecting the space-age economy of the 1960s. The message behind Gray's edit was that power is the new plastics in an age of electricity-hungry AI.