Wash.DC: New shortage skills are listed, to relax some immigration obstacles.

The Labor Department, under a 1990 law, proposes 10 more shortage occupations, to avoid the time usually needed to show that American workers aren’t available. The shortage skills include biological science in 17 states, computer science in seven, medical technology in four states and

Teachers of the physically, hearing, mentally and otherwise impaired in New York.

General practitioners, internists, pediatricians, obstetricians and gynecologists are deemed in short supply in West Virginia, where 11 countries lack any prenatal or obstetric care, a governor’s task force said recently. The shortages also include Chinese and Japanese food cooks in seven states and Washington D.C.

Article extracted from this publication >>  April 9, 1993