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Trump says skilled foreign workers take jobs away from Americans. It's not that simple, experts say

Economists have studied the impacts H-1B employees have within individual companies and at the local labor market level and reached similar conclusions about foreign workers' impacts on American jobs.

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Trump says skilled foreign workers take jobs away from Americans. It's not that simple, experts say
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