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Obama Seeks to Boost Training For High-Tech Jobs
President Obama speaking at a town hall event at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C.
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President Barack Obama is embarking on a 20-city drive to intensify job-specific training in the high-tech sector. The tour is designed to be one of the biggest federal-city efforts boosting non-college skills training in history. The 20 cities, which include New York, San Francisco, Louisville, St. Louis, and Detroit, will work with emerging training companies and academies to train and place graduates.
The administration aims to place 50,000 graduates into high-paying jobs, harnessing the potential of skills-specific job academies that train students for high-tech positions in as little as three months. The academies generally require students to attend all-day classes five days a week to immerse themselves in a specific set of skills. The White House already has received commitments from several academies to train students in cooperation with the cities in which they operate and submit to regular outside audits to verify job placement success.
The administration maintains that up to 500,000 job openings are available in the fields of software development, cybersecurity, and network administration, all of which come with salaries up to 50-percent higher than average full-time work. "Helping more Americans train and connect to these jobs is a key element of the president's middle-class economic agenda," says deputy White House press secretary Jen Friedman.
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