The ‘peace dividend’ engineering layoffs – and why they still matter

Readers of WND.com are familiar with the significance of the year 1990 as it relates to the H-1B visa, but did you know it was significant in the post-Cold War defense downsizing as well?

That’s right: Layoffs of U.S. scientists and engineers, begun in the late 1980s, began to steamroll in 1990, so much so that in 1992 a congressional report predicted that one in three defense engineering positions (or about 127,000 jobs) would be eliminated within five years.

It was called the...