text: PBS NewsHour: The Immigrant Brain Drain: How America Is Losing Its High-Tech Talent : Wadhwa
  - PBS NewsHour: The Immigrant Brain Drain: How America Is Losing Its High-Tech Talent
  Diversity boosts high-tech innovation in America, argues Vivek Wadhwa.
  In earlier Making Sen$e posts, Wadhwa broke through conventional wisdom to argue that innovation comes from experience, and that twice as many entrepreneurs are over age 50 as under 25. Now, read Wadhwa's attempt to open the window onto another kind of Silicon Valley diversity.
  Meanwhile, it is a completely uncontroversial fact that STEM graduates are earning higher wages than graduates in any other field of study and are more likely to find an occupation in their field than are graduates from other degree programs. Here are Census Bureau reports that show that STEM majors dominate other majors in terms of economic outcomes. Yet Salzman and his co-authors somehow reach the opposite conclusion.
  Rob Atkinson of The Information Technology Innovation Foundation also analyzed the Salzman data and claims. He debunked its many myths in a paper titled "The Real Story on Guestworkers in the High-skill U.S. Labor Market. "The report refutes each substantive claim, showing that American students are dropping out of STEM majors at high rates; those who complete their majors are finding abundant work opportunities in their fields; and the wages of most in IT occupations are growing.