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To: VBH who wrote (1139)	1/12/1998 7:33:00 PM
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Saw this article on TechWeb. Bodes well for the employment field! James Government Addresses Tech Worker Shortage (01/12/98; 7:03 p.m. EST) By Mary Mosquera, TechWeb The shortage of skilled high-tech workers is so urgent that the Clinton administration announced Monday it will help train more computer programmers and other technical workers. The Labor Department has projected that the United States will need 1.3 million more computer scientists, engineers, systems analysts, and computer programmers between 1996 and 2006, calling it "America's new deficit." According to industry groups, about 10 percent of information technology jobs are unfilled. The initiatives would be designed to boost the number of technically trained workers, and include ways to make the industry seem more "cool" among young people. One of the goals of the industry is to change misconceptions of high-tech professions from "nerdy" to "dynamic, exciting opportunities," Harris said. One promotion in the works is a video featuring actor Jimmy Smits that would target high school and college students. The U.S. Commerce Department will offer $17 million in grants to fund projects using high-tech products that strengthen the community, deliver services, and contribute to life-long learning, Commerce Secretary William Daley said at a technology workforce convention in Berkeley, Calif., sponsored by the Information Technology Association of America and U.C. Berkeley. The grants will be part of the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program, which underwrites seed money for such projects to underserved Americans. Commerce Secretary Daley said the department's Advanced Technology Program has already awarded $68 million for 21 projects that address the lack of skilled workers. The Commerce Department will also hold four town hall meetings to discuss the workforce needs of the technology industry. It will launch an effort similar to the National Medal of Technology, which honors technological achievement, to underscore technology's place in the U.S. economy and stimulate young people's interest in the profession. "America is rapidly moving to the point where economic realities make IT literacy as fundamental to the job skills of the well-rounded employee as the ability to read or write," said Harris Miller, president of the ITAA. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, along with the ITAA, found in a survey of 500 companies that the high-tech worker shortage was "large and growing." The core information technology workforce is believed to be just over 3.3 million, including programmers, systems analysts, and computer engineers. But more than 340,000 of those positions are vacant, the survey showed.