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Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com)

Accenture said on Friday it would create 15,000 "highly skilled" new jobs in the United States, as IT services firms brace for a more protectionist U.S. technology visa program under President Donald Trump. From a report on Reuters: The company, which is domiciled in Dublin, Ireland, said the new jobs would increase the company's U.S. workforce by 30 percent to more than 65,000 by the end of 2020. Accenture has more than 394,000 employees, of which about 140,000 are in India. IT services companies have come under the spotlight after Trump said that his administration would focus on creating more jobs for U.S. workers, who had been affected by the outsourcing of jobs abroad. Major IT service companies, particularly those based in India, fly engineers to the United States using H-1B visas to service clients, but some opponents argue they are misusing the visa program to replace U.S. jobs.

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  1. Re:Globalization vs. Protectionism by penandpaper · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Racism. If you disagree that just means you are a racist. Probably a Nazi too.

    I can punch you in the face now, right? Obviously Nazi obviously deserves to be punched in the face.

  2. Re:Opposite Day by SuperKendall · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The fashionable panic is because the only thing he's almost keeping is the promise to ban muslims from entering the country.

    Kind of odd considering all Trump is doing is reviving an Obama travel ban - all of the countries Trump had on the ban list were defined under Obama. And the list doesn't include any of the largest Muslim Majority countries, so it's rather weak to call it a Muslim ban rather than Islamic Extremist ban (which it was and is and will be).

    Right, but there's ways to do that which will benefit his ilk without benefiting the small or even medium business.

    Are you even being serious? You at the very least aren't being intelligent. What he has said, what the house has said, all we know for sure is the corporate tax rates are coming down. That affects small and medium sized businesses the MOST because we cannot afford a giant team of lawyers to find us tax breaks. many of the large corporations are noted for how little tax they pay; I will say MY effective tax rate percentage-wise is way higher than any large company I know of.

    No, he is certainly not the average politician. He is much, much better

    FTFY since your wording had no basis in reality for most Americans.

    I'll let you have the last word since I can't spend all day teaching you the simplest basis of American taxes for business. Proceed further to cement your ignorance for history if you wish.

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