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Welcome back to Forum.

I'm Alexis Madrigal.

The H-1B visa program is supposed to bring in-demand highly skilled workers into U.S. companies that can't find enough domestic workers.

The H-1B holders are supposed to be paid the same wage as U.S. workers who kind of do the same thing.

But there's a big and almost impossibly dumb loophole.

If a company hires an H h1b worker through a contractor,

that places that person into a different and lower salary pool. So the same worker,

passed through this middleman company, gets far less pay, which means lower costs for tech

companies that hire through outsourcing firms. This is the key mechanism that the Economic Policy Institute says is responsible for tens of millions of dollars in lost wages for H-1B holders.

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