Thank You, India.

Joshua M Brown
February 26th, 2010

When people drone on endlessly about the Decline of the American Empire and about the fact that 10% plus unemployment will be a permanent feature, they forget about a very basic trend that has not abated...skilled, intelligent people from around the world want to "make it" here, more than anywhere else.

I was surprised to learn that, based on data from the H-1B Visa program for skilled immigrants, such a large percentage of these strivers are coming here from India.

From Economix:

Bear in mind, though, that a lot of the world’s innovators are still hoping to come to the United States.

Many of these researchers come in through the country’s H-1B visa program, which is for skilled immigrants. The majority of these immigrants come from India, and the next biggest group comes from China: