- By Susanne Posel – March 9, 2015
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | The US IndependentMarch 9, 2015
President Obama is expected to create a new hiring and training program called TechHire after making the announcement to the National League of Cities (NLC).
TechHire is a scheme to ensure US workers are properly trained to fill numerous technologically-driven jobs expected to flood the market in the next decade.
Currently there are an estimated 5 million technology jobs available in fields such as cybersecurity, software development and network administration.
Back in 2014, Caryl Watkins, director of career and scholarship at the College of Staten Island predicted that engineering and technology industries will “start to boom again like when we had Y2K.”
As of last year, the hottest jobs in the tech industry were:
• Software developer
• Computer systems analyst
• Web developer
• Information security analyst
• Database administrator
• Civil engineer
• Mechanical engineer
• IT manager
• Computer programmer
• Computer systems administrator
Jennifer Friedman, deputy press secretary to the White House said: “Helping more Americans train and connect to these jobs is a key element of the President’s middle-class economics agenda.”
Shirley Bloomfield, chief executive officer of the National Telephone Cooperative Association (NTCA) Rural Broadband Association (RBA), commented on the president’s initiative: “The Obama Administration needs to think about rural America as part of that equation.”
The president’s call for a nation of skilled workers began in January of 2014, while speaking to a crowd of over 100 college and university presidents at North Carolina State University (NCSU), heads of more than 40 non-profit organizations and various educational groups, the president said: “More than ever a college degree is the surest path to a stable middle class life.”
Obama explained that the US is lagging in making college degrees available to low-income families.
The president allocated $14 million to corporations and universities that can turn their students toward building the next generation of computer programmers, manufacturers of electronic chips and develop innovative devices for a technologically advanced society.
The Next Generation Power Electronics Institute (NGPEI) will be located at the NCSU centennial campus.
The Department of Energy (DoE) is expected to join investments of $7 million of federal monies to the new endeavor while corporations participating with the program will then bring commerce to North Carolina.
Obama explained that the NGPEI will become the “hub to lift up our communities. The hub to spark the technology and research that will create the new industries, the good jobs required for folks to punch their tickets into the middle class.”
Both the president and the First Lady are admonishing public schools to entice children of low-income families to take advantage of new programs being developed by the Obama administration to foster an increase in college enrollment.
Michelle Obama said: “These kids are smart, they will notice if we’re not holding up our end of the bargain.”
The direction of the current administration has shifted to create a national involvement in pathways to Harvard and Princeton while also diverting the large percentage of lower-education attendees who will be taught a skill in a technical college.
Obama declared: “We have to make sure there are new ladders of opportunity to the middle class. I’m working with Congress where I can to accomplish this. But I’m also going to take action on my own if Congress is deadlocked.”
To kick of the “year of action”, Obama is bring down a spotlight on changes that are in the works.
Schools that participate in the president’s version of reinventing education in America will be expected to:
- Helping low-income students connect with colleges that can meet their needs and then seeking to ensure that they graduate.
- Reaching out to elementary, middle and high school students in hopes that by engaging earlier, more students will be encouraged to pursue higher education.
- Boosting remedial programs so underprepared students will still have opportunities to succeed.
- Seeking to ensure lower-income students aren’t disadvantaged by lack of access to college advisers and inability to prepare for entrance exams like the SAT and ACT.
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