Obama to announce training initiative for high-tech jobs
Source: Reuters
President Barack Obama on Monday will announce a program to provide more Americans with the training needed to secure jobs in the high-technology industry, the White House said.
The initiative, which Obama will detail at a National League of Cities conference in Washington, will include "collaboration with local government leaders - working with each other and with national employers - that are committed to expanding access to tech jobs in their communities," the White House statement said on Sunday.
The statement added there were more than 500,000 job openings in such fields as software development and cybersecurity and that the average salary in jobs requiring information technology skills was 50 percent higher than the average private-sector job in the United States.
"Helping more Americans train and connect to these jobs is a key element of the Presidents middle-class economics agenda," the White House statement said.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/09/us-usa-obama-employment-idUSKBN0M501720150309
GuntherGebelWilliams
(58 posts)Why didn't he do this 6 years ago?
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)But let's don't forget that our children and grandchildren need to also learn history, to read great literature, to study psychology and sociology and philosophy as well as languages.
Technical training may make a person more employable and result in a higher salary. But a liberal arts education results in a richer life, and when more people know more about history, literature, psychology, sociology and philosophy (to name a few important subjects), our country is a better place for all of us.
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)that seems to be what the big employers are really looking for
the US has tons of untapped IT talent already but it's not being used!
cstanleytech
(26,351 posts)Newsjock
(11,733 posts)Electronics for Imaging paid several employees from India as little as $1.21 an hour to help install computer systems at the company's Fremont headquarters, federal labor officials said Wednesday.
"We are not going to tolerate this kind of behavior from employers," said Susana Blanco, district director of the U.S. Labor Department's wage and hour division in San Francisco.
The incident is a reminder that even amid a labor market that has boomed in recent years in Silicon Valley and other parts of the Bay Area, income inequality and payments of relatively low wages can still be a problem for workers in the region. The workers were paid in Indian rupees.
still_one
(92,502 posts)has the mind-set for high tech, which is why the program would be better served to provide training on an individual need basis
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)The problem is never the workers skills it is the PAY scale.
antigop
(12,778 posts)still_one
(92,502 posts)is the myth that there are not enough people here qualified to do the work, when the reality is there are plenty of programmers here, it is just that companies can get "more bang for their buck" by other means
Also, training a programer is jnot ust a quick 9 month training course, it has to start when they are young.
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)than they can get away with paying untrained imported labor.
KG
(28,753 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)in the early to mid 2000s, they did the same thing.
The political class who can't even handle email, told us all we were too technologically stupid to deserve a job.
Millions of laid-off workers and veterans trained for IT jobs only to be told India was cheaper and better. Wall Street then spent billions training Mexico, China and India to take jobs from American workers.
The jobs will go to the country that offers the lowest wages and the least amount of worker protections.
It's a pattern that continues today because history repeats itself.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)USAID will train people in
Sri Lanka to compete with Americans