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The nation's high-technology work force has grown by 1.2 million people since 1993, reaching a total level of 5 million last year, according to a new industry report. California boasted the most technology jobs and the great-est number created. Texas ranked second in both categories. Colorado has the highest concentration of high-tech workers - 84 out of every 1,000. Virginia and Georgia rounded out the top five states ranked by number of added technology jobs. The high-tech industry is no longer confined to Silicon Valley. It is now an industry whose scope, dynamism and impact extends from sea to sea. High-tech workers counted included everyone employed at companies that make technology products - such as microchips or software - or provide communications or computer services. Technology jobs paid an average $58,000 annually, compared with $32,000 for other private-sector work, the report said.

The United States Congress has overcome a major hurdle. blocking legislation that would boost the number of visas for Russians with technical sldlls such as computer programmers and electrical engineers. The hurdle, a measure that would have granted amnesty to between 1 million and 2 million undocumented immigrants, was cast aside, and the House Judic@ Committee approved the bill - sponsored' by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas - thatwould end limits on such visas known as Hl-Bs.'

The Judiciary Comttee action is another step toward Rusisans being able to work both in the United States and from their homes in Russia by computer. The full House is expected to vote on the measure next month. An attempt last week by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., to attach a provision - originally suggested by President Clinton - to the bill that would grant amnesty to an estimated 1 million to 2 million people who are in the country illegally threatened to stall the legislation. But Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., refused yesterday to allow a vote on the attachment. Under Lofgren's proposal, anyone who arrived illegally in the United States before 1986 would be eligible to apply for legal residence. Currently, only undocumented immigrants who arrived before 1972 can seek legal status. With the U.S. economy now growing at a 5 percent pace and unemployment at 3.9 percent, labor markets have become so tight that many industries are having trouble filling vacancies. . According to the Information Technology Association of America, a Washington, D.C.- based high-tech industry lobby group, about 850,000 jobs will go unfilled during'the next year because of a lack of qualified U.S. applicants. The problem is costing businesses $4.5 billion a year in lost productivity, ITAA said. For a business, this lack of workers means that projects don't get done or products get delivered later. And, unfortunately, if the informational technology industry slows down, it has a ripple effect on the entire economy."Using such statistics, ITAA and other information industry lobbyists have been leaning on Congress to raise the ceiling on HI-B visas. As a result, a consensus is emerging in Congress to expand the immigration program. H-lB visas are capped at 115,000 this fiscal year, but all of them were issued in the first six months. Under present law, the ceiling win fall to 107,500 in the next year starting Oct. 1 and 65,000 in fiscal 2002. Smith's bill would eliminate those ceilings. But Smith said his bill also contains provisions to protect American hightech work-ers. To prevent companies from hiring Hl-B workers at substantially lower salaries than their U.S. counterparts, Smith's legislation would set minimum pay at $40,000, the computer industry's average starting salary, for foreign workers. Companies also would have to conduct annual reviews of wages for new American workers to ensure that their pay either stays at the industry average or rises. In the Senate, an industry-supported bill proposed by Orrin Hatch of Utah and Spencer Abraham of Michigan is pending. It has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and would boost H-lB visas to 195,000 annually for each of the next three, years. The bill would include an education fee of $500 per visa for U.S. worker retraining programs. The Hl-B program, enjoy's high levels of support in Congress



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