Over at Baseline magazine, there is a lengthy article that is drawing a lot of heated discussion on whether there is a shortage of IT workers in the US or not. The article says that claims of an IT shortage are nothing more than a well-publicized myth. In fact, there may even be a slight surplus.
Furthermore, the article points out, if there was a true shortage, IT worker wages would be going up, which they haven't.
The article quotes different folks like Dr. Ron Hira, professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, a fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and co-author of the book Outsourcing America (bits on-line here), who believe that the claims of an IT shortage is to further certain high tech business interests: "the motive is to get the Feds to loosen immigration restrictions for cheap foreign labor, to increase supply of workers in order to reduce labor costs and to justify offshore outsourcing efforts."
You can check out Hira's views expressed before Congress when he was representing the IEEE-USA on the issue of outsourcing high-tech jobs here.
My previous IT job related posts and discussions can be found here, here, here and here.
