- Immigration
- US Labor Market
- Economics
- Answering Challenges to Advanced Economies
How can Congress turn years of bipartisan talk into real reform and fix outdated high-skilled immigration pathways? By enforcing H-1B domestic recruitment requirements, creating targeted pathways for critical technology experts, and closing unfair payroll tax loopholes, lawmakers have a real opportunity to deliver meaningful reform that both ensures a fair labor market for US workers and allows America to maintain its competitive edge as a technological powerhouse.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Paola Sapienza is the J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where she co-directs the JP Conte Initiative on Immigration, and she is a founding member of the Hoover Program on the Foundations for Economic Prosperity. Her research interests span from corporate governance to financial development, from political economy to the economic effects of culture and the economics of immigration. Follow Paola Sapienza on LinkedIn.
Amy Nice is a distinguished immigration counsel at the Institute for Progress and a distinguished immigration scholar at Cornell Law. She is a leading thinker on STEM immigration, focused on using evidence-based research to find practical solutions to immigration policy problems. She formerly served as assistant director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she led initiatives on STEM talent policy. Follow Amy Nice on LinkedIn.
