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Re:Families go deep in debt to maintain a middle-class lifes... by commandlinefan on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:51PM (#20587619)
> an fraction of the overall tech sector jobs

Wait, what? Where have you been? I mean, 9/10 is a fraction, so yeah… but I’ve been in software development for 25 years across five different geographic regions (of the United States) and I’m usually the _only_ non-Indian non-H1B software developer there.

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Re:Families go deep in debt to maintain a middle-class lifes... by jimbob45 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:55PM (#20587662)
I'm only seeing a total of < 500,000 according to the below link. That's a pretty small fraction of the total number of workers. I'm very open to anyone disputing that number.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigratio...

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Re:Families go deep in debt to maintain a middle-class lifes... by whenanother on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:56PM (#20587669)
there are speculations that there are over 1 million h1b workers. this is not counting the other work visa program. the government and tech industries have been hiding their population.
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