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Robert Kuttner

Here's a job Americans would do

By Robert Kuttner
May 27, 2006

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AMERICA has a nursing shortage, so Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas has the perfect solution: imports. His provision in the Senate's immigration bill would waive the ceiling on the number of foreign nurses who can immigrate. Most come from poorer countries like the Philippines and India. (Full article: 760 words)

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