A french/american blog with some hungarian spices…
Archive for June, 2007
Experimental apartment building in Seattle welcomes homeless alcoholics
Jun 20th
At the apartment building, residents pay less than US$200 a month in rent and must buy their own alcohol.
On a recent visit to the building, a big sunny dining room was half-full of residents in various stages of intoxication. The air smelled slightly of alcohol, but there were no cans or bottles around.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=48eddfef-b198-4c3f-b2d1-b1d969738850&k=7372
Link of the day…. human after all :)
Jun 10th
Sorry it’s in french… but it’s very fun 
http://desourcesure.com/politiqueaffaires/2007/06/g8_sarkozy_carrement_a_louest.php
Work in US… some news about H1B visas
Jun 9th
The San Francisco Chronicle published several articles on the ‘US Immigration’ and the current H1B visa issue. Here are some interesting quotes from the article:
They say the basic annual quota for H-1B visas — now 65,000 — is too low. The Senate bill would increase that base to 115,000 visas per year with the potential to go to 180,000, subject to various caveats.
Next one is not really a surprise:
Meanwhile, Indian workers, who account for 4 out of 10 H-1B visa holders
Indian government is also doing ‘outsourcing’
Even the Indian government calls the H-1B visas the outsourcing visa
Some Numbers:
Top 5 National Origins
India: 49%
China: 9.1%
Canada: 3.6%
Korea: 3.3%
Philippines: 2.8%
Top 5 Occupations
Computer-related: 45.3%
Higher education: 11.2%
Architecture, engineering, surveying: 11.1%
Administrative specializations: 9.5%
Medicine and health: 6.2%
Good new for the software engineers:
Employers see razor-thin unemployment rates: (Unemployment rates from Bureau of Labor Statistics for April 2007)
Computer and mathematical occupations: 1.4%
Some mode readings about the subject: