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More and more people are finding good jobs without getting a degree first. Mike Sugerman reports. View video CBS SF Bay Area...

The tech industry wants more skilled workers — from overseas. Companies are lobbying hard for Congress to raise the — visas for people with specialized skills — researchers, for instance, or software engineers. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, recently told NPR that more H-1B visas can’t help but be good for the country. “We need to continue to attract some of the best and brightest people in the world to come and join us in world-leading [research and development] efforts,” Smith said. But that “best-and-brightest” argument doesn’t quite match up with reality — especially when you look at which...

Hu-Friedy Sets Up Apprenticeship Program, But Dental-Instruments Maker Is Rare Exception Hu-Friedy, a manufacturer of dental instruments in Chicago, says its future hinges on four employees. So, it is paying them to leave their jobs for two years. While their colleagues bend and grind cylinders of steel on the factory floor, the four workers since March have been mastering the fundamentals of metal composition and heat-treating, among other things. The hope, managers say, is that the two years of full-time training will help keep the 106-year-old dental-instruments maker competitive in a mature industry crowded with rivals. What’s happening at...