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Wanted: More Beautiful Workers

Posted on June 27, 2008

I have long argued that the United States should welcome more skilled workers from other nations. A reader sends in an article reminding us that skills need to be broadly defined:Around 1,000 additional tech workers may get visas to work in the United States next year, and they may have fashion models to thank. That's because foreign-born models and programmers will no longer have to duke it out for the same visa slots if a New York congressman gets his way. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., has introduced a bill in the House that would create a new, nonimmigrant classification reserved exclusive...

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