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 dont 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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I still don;t understand what part of the Constitution allows for any kind of grants for any kind of company...?
Now we have let them in we will train them.
Yummy.
Perfect.
This egotistical schleprock just needs to hear himself in front of others, constantly.
Don’t worry; Bill Gates has been whining because young Americans know they will quickly be in the same boat as those older tech workers, and aren’t flocking to the field...
“to train and hire low-skilled workers for jobs in software development, network administration and cybersecurity”
He just wants more blacks on corporate payrolls; he doesn’t expect them to actually work.
Silly me, and here I was thinking that “work” was included in “job”.
For some of us “work” is included in “job”; for others they are just on the payroll to keep lawyers at bay. No expectations allowed...
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