| Mill Site Plaza finds a buyer
The economic headlines may be depressing for a large part of the nation, but in the Mon Valley city of Clairton, business is looking up. City council recently approved a motion that will convey the city-owned abandoned Mill Site Plaza to the city's redevelopment authority, which will then sell it to Blue Mountain Equipment Rental Corp. The Uniontown-based company plans to build an 8,000-square-foot office and warehouse facility on the vacant 2.6-acre lot at the corner of Maple Avenue and Route 837. The $800,000 facility will also serve as its corporate headquarters. The target opening date is Sept. 1. The company hopes to hire, starting later this year, 15 new employees, jobs such as truck drivers, mechanics, and office workers. "There's a large talent pool of people in the Mon Valley who we want to hire,'' said Chief Executive Officer and co-owner Jim Jones.
Education of the future
Over 1,000 Indian students are spread across various universities and colleges in Ireland, mostly enrolled into various courses in Bio-Sciences, Business Administration, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering among others. Studies reveal that Ireland, though having entered the field of education as a major player much after biggies such as US, UK etc, has been seeing a consistent increase of foreign students at 10 per cent per annum. Owing to its student-friendly atmosphere and courses that were carved out for future needs, Ireland housed nearly 25,000 international students in 2006. .
The Battle Over H-1B Visas Heats Up With Conflicting Reports
The article is fairly balanced, looking at a few different recent studies that suggest there isn't a shortage -- though, there isn't much of a surplus either. It tries to reconcile the fact that companies are having difficulty hiring workers (which is undeniable) by suggesting that the problem is more with the hiring process than with the labor supply. Of course, that's just one interpretation. Another might be that many of these studies are counting all "IT workers" as equal, meaning that someone with obsolete skills or who is not particularly good, is considered the equivalent of a programming hotshot. The problem many firms are finding these days isn't that it can't find techies, but that the techies they're finding just aren't that good or qualified. Finally, on the flip side of the coin, a study has come out dismantling the claims that H-1B visas tend to cost Americans jobs.
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