With the job growth in the High Tech sector there is also a labor shortage. One reason is that it is harder to hire foreign workers due to all the Homeland Security requirements to get Visas. Another reason for the shortage of labor is that universities are graduating less students with technical degrees.
The U.S. high-technology industry added more than 140,000 jobs during the first half of this year, nearly doubling the growth during the same period a year ago, according to a report released today. The sector employed 5.8 million people as of this June, the largest number since 2002, said the analysis by the American Electronics Association,