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Over the past year, the economy has been turning around in Germany. For nearly a decade, Germany has been synonymous with an anemic economy, high unemployment and a nearly out-of-control cost of living.
New Zealand's Immigration Minister, David Cunliffe, announced changes to the nation's Skilled Migrant Category (SMC), in an effort to attract highly skilled overseas talent that the minister feels New Zealand needs.
The SMC is designed to attract highly skilled migrants from abroad to New Zealand for the purpose of settlement, in an attempt to keep the country globally competitive.
Eastern European nations who have recently joined the European Union have seen enormous growth in emigration of their citizens to other countries. Economic growth coupled with low mobility of the remaining labor force has exacerbated a growing shortage of qualified skilled labor to perform needed local work.
New rules that require everyone to have a passport to cross the United States border are inconveniencing Americans who want to go on vacation. Politicians in Washington D.C. have received so many complaints that they are now likely to suspend the requirement, for Americans, temporarily.
Representatives from several government agencies are describing the White House and the Congress as being "deluged with complaints from furious constituents."
The United States Senate voted 49-48 this morning to place a five-year limit on a program that would have provided U.S. employers with 200,000 temporary foreign workers annually. The amendment was introduced by Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota.
A Senate vote just two weeks ago rejected the "five-year" amendment by Dorgan, who believes that immigration takes jobs that Americans could fill.
Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans have emigrated to places around the world since the Korean War ended in the 1950's. Traditionally a closed society, very similar in some aspects to Japan, not very many foreigners immigrate back into the country.
Combined with a fairly static birth rate, the country has shown signs of not replacing its highly skilled and educated work force at needed rates for some time.