USA Govt Grants for Tech Trg to reduce H1-B dependency!

[Bingoo]

WASHINGTON- U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao announced on March 12, 2002 grant awards totaling more than $23 million under the H-1B Technical Skills Training grant program. The grants were awarded to local communities to provide high-level training to employed and unemployed workers for jobs in occupations where skills shortages exist.

Full info at: http://www.doleta.gov/h-1b/whatshot/whatshot_tga.asp

 

[newly saint]

They are trying to do right thing but ....

if you do some research on this, these grants are being used mainly to teach "how to use MS Word, Excel..." type of training to the US workers. I don\'t see how will they ever replace an H1B Computer Engineer.. Just my openion.

 

[Bingoo]

It\'s beyond that...

I went thru the details of the some boards who received
grants ($3m for 2 years, each board). A couple of them will
train nurses. But some of them promote technology training
- like A+...