The NY Tech Meetup community has thousands of skilled technology professionals ready, willing and able to help New York City get back online and reconnected.
Americans are skilled at using technology, so why should we believe that we are too poorly educated to succeed in the digital age?
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Technology enables skilled and talented people to play on a bigger, national or global stage: be they actors, business managers, investors, etc.
But the payoffs from these programs are in the future, and it is vital today to increase the number of annual visas and grants of permanent residency status for foreigners skilled in science and technology.
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In 2000 it bought Elan, which provides skilled workers to information-technology companies.
At the same time, rich-world firms have invested heavily in new technology, raising demand for skilled workers faster than schools could increase supply.
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Applications by employers for a coveted visa program that feeds skilled workers to U.S. technology companies, banks and other businesses are expected to exceed supply this year, a sign of the strengthening economy that means some employers will rely on a lottery to fill key positions.
Berlin now has a mix of technology, talent and tolerance that attracts skilled people and breeds growth.
We learned this long ago in the U.S. and it resulted in major U.S. corporations offshoring repetitive, manufacturing work or upgrading it through technology to the point where it became skilled work.
Among the steps that Secretary Clinton and the White House announced in support of attracting and retaining women to STEM careers are improving data collection and dissemination on women in science and technology, bolstering the available pool of skilled STEM mentors, encouraging research-based STEM teaching, and helping to connect women to online and mobile STEM skills training.
Forty years ago, women with no apparent power, either transactional or economic, moved tens of thousands of women into business and the professions, into the skilled trades, into science, engineering, and, technology, onto police forces and into fire houses.
Countries that have a highly skilled workforce, that innovate, that excel in science and technology, are going to dominate the future.
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We can only keep these jobs in the U.S. if we have a skilled workforce who can meet the challenges that knowledge, information technology, and engineering present.
But by 2015 76% of all U.S. jobs created will require highly skilled workers, for example people with special skills in science, technology, engineering or math.
He says the coming technology explosion will drive out factory workers, low-skilled laborers, customer-service operators and even truck and taxi drivers (thank you Google Driverless Car).
"The business community and technology sector are running up against a shortage of highly skilled labor, and we need more H-1B visas, " said Brad Smith, general counsel of Microsoft.
The combination of new technology and globalisation has reduced the demand for the less skilled, and many workers, particularly men, have failed to respond to these deep changes in the labour market.
We need a skilled and educated workforce, a commitment to cutting-edge research and technology, and a fast and reliable transportation and communications network.
To address the need for a more analytical-skilled workforce, Ohio State and IBM are collaborating on new business and technology curricula to help students and mid-career professionals gain the latest skills in analytics and prepare for high value jobs in the future.
Changing technology and competition from emerging economies has reduced demand for low-skilled workers in rich countries.
New technology will be introduced along with labor-saving capital investment, and skilled workers will tend to replace unskilled workers.
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Mr. ALEX TABARROK (Professor, Economics, George Mason University): It's technology, computers and robots, which have raised the wages of high skilled workers and pushed down the wages of low skilled workers.
The Bay Area has long been a hub of innovation and technology, so it is critical that local employers are actively engaged in developing a skilled workforce for the 21st century.
As the Volcker Rule cuts down on proprietary trading at large investment banks, skilled traders are leaving and setting up their own alternative investment funds, and looking for the technology they need to trade and to report to their investors.
Businesses will create those jobs in countries with the highest-skilled, highest-educated workers, the most advanced transportation and communication, the strongest commitment to research and technology.
Gates testified before the House Committee on Science Technology on Wednesday about what he sees as a need to liberalize rules for H1-B visas for skilled foreign workers.
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