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Everyone knows that the United States has long suffered from widespread shortages in its science and engineering workforce, and that if continued these shortages will cause it to fall behind its major economic competitors. Everyone knows that these workforce shortages are due mainly to the myriad weaknesses of American K-12 education in science and mathematics, which international comparisons of student performance rank as average at best.

If you are an out-of-state student attending any public postsecondary school in California, New York, Utah, Washington, Oklahoma, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, and New Mexico and are paying the higher out of state tuition rates, you may be entitled to a refund.

Section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides detailed procedural requirements that employers must follow before hiring any individual. All employers, regardless of the size of their respective business, must verify the identity and work authorization of every new hire, citizen or alien. This includes reviewing documents which establish the employee's legal identity and his/her elgibility to be employed in the United States. If the employee is being hired for three or fewer days, verification must be done immediately when employment commences.

The best thing American business owners can do to ensure they stay in line with the law and protect American workers is to use E-Verify. Here are a few of the other benefits to using it.

1) It is easy to use and free for employers.

2) An employer who uses the pilot in good faith cannot be held liable for hiring an illegal alien -- use of the system is an affirmative defense -- or for discrimination because he never has to ask the hire for more or different documents since the computer does all of the checking.