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Pay dips in jobs held by immigrants

Contra Costa Times (CA)

by George Avalos

July 16, 2006

The surge of immigrants in recent years appears to have depressed the paychecks of East Bay workers in jobs with a big share of foreign-born employees.

These occupations tend to pay less than the average job in the East Bay, a Times analysis of state wage data shows. And that gap has increased in the past four years, at a time when the state has experienced a steady increase in immigrants, primarily from Mexico and other Latin American countries.

Report notes trends in federal work force

The Free Lance-Star (VA)

by fredericksburg.com and The Free Lance-Star

July 16, 2006

BY LAW, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is charged with monitoring the federal government's commitment to equal employment opportunity and identifying areas that need improvement.

Working with the Office of Personnel Management, the EEOC recently issued a status report. This wide-ranging study from 2005 includes a 10-year profile of the changing composition of the federal work force. Over the past decade, the number of federal workers increased from 2,532,507 in 1996 to 2,610,920 in 2005.

In Depth: U.S. IT Unemployment Plunges To 2.2%. But There's More To This Story

Information Week

by Eric Chabrow

July 16, 2006

Tech employment in the United States has been rising, to a record 3.48 million people in June, as 185,000 jobs were added to the rolls over the past two years.

Despite fears that IT is becoming a dead-end profession as work moves offshore, IT jobs were added at a faster rate during the past 24 months than in some perennially hot fields like accounting, nursing, and legal, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But there's more to the numbers than meets the eye.

RFID Vendors Need a Privacy Strategy

RFID Journal

by Kirk J. Nahra and John W. Kuzin

June 19, 2006

News reports continue to raise fears that RFID will be used to monitor consumers' personal lives.

These reports demonstrate firsthand that RFID solutions providers that do not account for privacy and security concerns in their product development, marketing and sales cycles will be at a substantial disadvantage to those providers that do.

Programmers file federal complaints over 'H-1B only' ads

Computer World

by Patrick Thibodeau

June 19, 2006

The Programmers Guild is filing a stack of complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice against some 300 IT employers for discriminating against U.S. citizens.

The Programmers Guild charges IT employers are discriminating against U.S. citizens and permanent residents by placing advertisements that specifically seek "H-1B only" visa holders or workers who have student or L-1 visas. John Miano, founder of the Summit, N.J.-based Programmers Guild, said today that he has collected some 1,500 IT job advertisements in the past six weeks from a variety of online jobs boards that express preference for hiring visa holders.

Occidentalist myths in the age of free markets and democracy

Taipei Times

by Pankaj Mishra

June 15, 2006

Both India and China, which made their most impressive gains when they rejected rather than embraced the free market, need a new way of becoming modern

Economic reforms in the 1980s focused on boosting export-oriented industries on the coast. They made China a huge sweatshop for the West's cheap goods and gave it an average annual growth of 10 percent.

InformationWeek | News | Apple Looks Into iPod 'Sweatshop' Charges | June 14, 2006

informationweek.com

by Gregg Keizer

June 14, 2006

Apple responds to charges that a Taiwanese manufacturer of its iPod Nano music player was running sweatshop-style factories in mainland China.

An article in the print edition of the London-based Mail on Sunday newspaper said that Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., better known by its Foxconn brand, pays workers at a Longhua, China, plant just $50 each month, about half what another electronics maker pays its workers who assemble other iPods. The workers, mostly young women from rural areas of China, do 15-hour shifts, are housed in dormitories from which outsiders are banned, and regularly pay about half their wages for room and board charges, the Mail said.

Government Did Invent the Internet, But the Market Made It Glorious

mises.org

by Peter G. Klein

June 12, 2006

Libertarians often cite the internet as a case in point that liberty is the mother of innovation. Opponents quickly counter that the internet was a government program, proving once again that markets must be guided by the steady hand of the state.

In one sense the critics are correct, though not in ways they understand. The internet indeed began as a typical government program, the ARPANET, designed to share mainframe computing power and to establish a secure military communications network. Of course the designers could not have foreseen what the (commercial) internet has become. Still, this reality has important implications for how the internet works - and explains why there are so many roadblocks in the continued development of online technologies. It is only thanks to market participants that the internet became something other than a typical government program: inefficient, overcapitalized, and not directed toward socially useful purposes.

Consumer Reports Finds Personal Privacy Concerns In Planned Uses Of Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFIDs)

TMCnet

by Alberto G. Rojas

May 4, 2006

Not many consumers know about Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), a wireless technology that allows objects and people to be tagged and tracked.

RFID tags contain microchips and tiny radio antennas that are embedded in all kinds of products, credit cards, or stuck on labels. A three-month investigation in the June 2006 issue of Consumer Reports has found the RFID industry lacking in the necessary measures to strengthen tag security against identity thieves.

3 wrong ways to use technology

Microsoft

by Kim Komando

April 26, 2006

You want to get an edge on your competition? Avoid trying these and other disingenuous methods. They are more likely to lead to public embarrassment of you and your company, lawsuits or both.

1. Sending fake e-mail to the competitor's best customer. 2. Spreading the word on message boards. 3. Skewing online polls in your favor. Work hard and work smart instead

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