[grania]

There are STEM programs in high schools now. If the tech companies were so inclined, they could get qualified workers, train them, and pay less than a college graduate would expect.

Trump's staff definitely did their homework on this one. This will appeal to a lot of those STEM trained grads who'd rather get jobs than get stuck with college loans.

[Vigilanteman]

True story. My daughter was close friends with a couple from high school who became sweethearts and eventually married. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon, one of the top IT universities in the country which she graduated from University of Pittsburgh in something more commonplace.

She got a job right away in the Pittsburgh area. The best he could do was an IT job on the other side of the state, roughly a four hour commute each way. So he commuted home to his wife on weekends and holidays for about two years.

There wasn't a lack of IT jobs in the Pittsburgh area; just a lack of willingness of area employers to hire Americans. They actually had seminars telling the employers how not to hire Americans. Finally, someone posed as an IT corporate employer, paid to attend one of these seminars and secretly took a video, which was posed on You-Tube and went viral. Don't know if it is still there, but it caused enough of an uproar, that one of the many IT places to which this young man had applied in the Pittsburgh area finally called and offered him a job.