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Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates
The Promise That Became a Lie
The unemployment rate among recent computer science majors sits at 6.1%—one of the highest among all surveyed majors.Meanwhile, 16.5%are stuck in jobs that don't require a college degree, according to . Employers receive a 15% discount for every STEM OPT they hire because they don’t have to pay Social Security or Medicare taxes, while government labor protection or oversight is minimal. We spent billions of dollars through federal student aid, state university funding, and private investment to build the world's best computer science education system—then systematically undermined its graduates with a flood of foreign competition.
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