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US brain drain

posted on Mar 17, 2010 12:05PM

Not about stocks, but interesting

Meanwhile, the real jobs -- or at least the people that we need to employ -- are fleeing the U.S. In recent years, foreign students snagged 60% of engineering doctorates in the United States. If you widen the pool to doctorates in engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics and economics, foreigners still account for 50%...

There was a time when these students exited the academy and stayed stateside. No more. “The United States may be experiencing the first brain drain in its history,” Vivek Wadhwa, a professor at Duke told us.

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