Ron Hira is an assistant professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he specializes in engineering workforce issues and innovation policy. Dr. Hira is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute. An expert on outsourcing and high-skilled immigration policies, Ron is co-author of the book Outsourcing America (AMACOM 2005) (http://www.amanet.org/books/catalog/0814408680.htm ) and author of a recent policy paper on high-skilled immigration prepared for the Agenda for Shared Prosperity (http://www.sharedprosperity.org/bp187.html ).