America Slaps a $100K Price Tag on Immigrant Talent — But Still Won’t Pay for Math Class

Taxing H1-B Visas won’t bring back tech jobs to America. Education will.

The creepy love child of AI and Hieroynmous Bosch. Bosch did it better.

I once walked into a fifth-grade classroom during an author visit with a jar of live leeches sloshing in my tote bag. (You want to get a roomful of ten-year-olds to care about biology? Nothing beats a squirming bloodsucker.)

The trick worked…sort of. In the wealthier schools, the ones with espresso machines humming in the teachers’ lounge, the kids practically levitated with curiosity. When I asked these kids what their favorite subject was, “Science!” burst out like popcorn.

In the poorer schools — the ones where the playground swings squeaked on neglected hinges — the leeches drew gasps but no converts. Science ranked somewhere below cafeteria meatloaf.

Same jar of leeches. Different reactions based on a child’s zipcode.

My experience is not just anecdotal. Schools in high-poverty districts (where more than 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch) are far less likely to have functioning lab space, sufficient science supplies, or materials for hands-on experiments. For example, in poorer districts, barely half of middle schools can stock a functioning…