Session #110 · 2007–09

Speech #1100052790

There is one final point 1 wish to make. We have a system. as the Senator from North Dakota pointed out. where people will work here. go back to their country of origin for a period of time. come back to work. go back to their country. and come back to work. Under our proposal. they get a certain number of points under the merit system which help move them on a pathway toward a green card and toward citizenship. 1 wish that merit system could be changed in a way that favored workers more extensively and provided a greater balance between low skill and high skill because the labor market demands both. If you read the reports of the Council of Economic Advisers. you find there is a need for high skill. but 8 out of the 10 critical occupations are also low skill. We have tried. during this process. to see if we couldnt find eqjual incentives for both.
Keywords matched
green card

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
EDWARD KENNEDY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
2007-06-05
Speech ID
1100052790
Paragraph
#5
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