from the Semiconductor Industry Association, an industry trade group, and Oxford Economics, there will be 85,000 new technical jobs in the industry by 2030. But the report's projections indicate that nearly 80% of those jobs could go unfilled.
"The last time we had a real substantial update for our legal immigration system in 1990,” Schulte said. "That’s prior to the end of the Cold War. It’s prior to the advent of the World Wide Web. It’s prior to the rise of China and India and a global middle class in so many ways here. We have an immigration system that basically was designed in the 1950s and '60s and tweaked in 1990 before so much of the economic needs we had today were clear.
Meanwhile, native-born Americans are having fewer kids, while many older individuals are aging out of the workforce, further widening the labor gap in the country. "I think that's what we’re really, really focused on trying to highlight is this won’t happen by default," he said. Attorney tempers flared at Trump's fraud trial, where a quiet sidebar discussion erupted into cross-accusations of rudeness and disrespectfulness.