Posted on 03/09/2015 5:23:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Targeting stagnant wages in an otherwise improving economy, President Barack Obama on Monday called on employers, educational institutions and local governments to develop a home grown high technology workforce that could help drive up higher-income employment.
The effort aims to attack a stubborn downside of the current economic recovery and fill what the White House says is a gaping demand for high-tech workers in the United States. […]
Obama has obtained commitments from more than 300 employers as well as local governments in 21 regions of the country to train and hire low-skilled workers for jobs in software development, network administration and cybersecurity.
Under the program, the Obama administration will provide $100 million in competitive grants to joint initiatives by employers, training institutions and local governments that target workers who don’t have easy access to training. The money comes from fees companies pay to the government to hire higher-skilled foreign workers under the H-1B visa program. …
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With Indian and Chinese H1Bs.
He has already said he would permit 100K Chinese. He’s just now articulating a spew of a talking point BS.
They are older and tend to be a little expensive. So, I guess flooding the market with young, cheap workers who haven't figured out how to do the job seems like a solution. [/s]
And their spouses.
I hope we all like tandoori, naan, and rice.
Maybe dog, too.
DevMountain. The Coding Factory
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3265459/posts
Guy Spent $11,000 On A Coding ‘Bootcamp’ And Doubled His Salary
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3007094/posts
spend thousands of hours training to be a dev...
get a job in an industry where 80+ hr weeks are normal...
then give 50%+ to the fedgov so they can buy more voters.
and that’s if they don’t bring someone from a third world country for you to train as your replacement.
yup, sounds awesome. thx bjclinton.
- 30+ yr software development professional
thats what they have attempted to do with all the workers they hired to customer service jobs “answer calls” and try to find “web pages and or other software supports screens” and they are failing...they can not even do those simple tasks...they can’t help worth a damn...hell you can never get them to the same page of their software we are forced to use and don’t understand the program worth a damn...they are like “tits on a bore hog” worthless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They're just coding the NSA and IRS spying stuff that Americans won't code.
-PJ
Sounds like EPC here in Columbia SC. Makes Dilbert’s company look like a paradise.
I usually think of the comedy routines on foreign customer service so that I don’t rip my phone out of the wall when am on one of ‘those’ calls.
As one of the few individuals who has obtained both the highest industry certifications for networking (CCIE) and security (CISSP), it simply does NOT work to start with low skilled people. Generally you want to have a solid background in Microsoft and Unix administration before you tackle the harder topics.
The Assholeciated Press is constantly headlining Obama “calling for” something to “boost” something.
*yawn*
The annoying part is that after Jan 2017 we’ll continue to see him (and Mooch) constantly. They’ll be everywhere.
to train and hire low-skilled workers for jobs in software development, network administration and cybersecurity.
is there anotherr health care website in the offing ...?
I think I need that as a bumper sticker
And here I thought we were just told that STEM education was now “racist”.
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