I estimate it will take five to 15 years for the IT labor supply in this country to adjust, ... As other countries catch up to our level of IT, we will constantly be facing the same staffing challenges.
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The U. S. government's commitment to continuing to pump out these graduates began to drop off in 1970s. The space race had been won. There was a recession in the late 1960s. The country was hurt by the oil crisis in the early 1970s. And the country had moved away from the attitude of the 1960s that you could solve the world's problems with government spending.Harris Miller
Students were seeing the end of the Cold War, corporate restructuring, and layoffs. To tell them that they should focus on a computer science degree rather than a business or law school degree was not an easy sell,
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It was designed to be an open, borderless medium for communication and sharing information, and was not programmed with security features. Nor was it intended for commercial use,
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What I see is a stable of salivating legal factories gearing up. Is it prudent or responsible for Congress to wait for the inevitable flood or do what it can to provide sandbags now
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This country is bankrupt. If it weren't for investors from China and Japan, our biggest competitors, buying our debt each week, the U.S. couldn't even pay its bills. We have to make this a priority. We have to get this country back on a business-like, sound financial footing as soon as possible.
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In the late 1950s, in line with the space race and the Cold War, the government put a tremendous emphasis on funding engineers and computer people. The country had a massive focus on subsidizing students, supporting government labs, and supporting colleges and universities. So there was a huge growth spurt in the talent pool in the 1960s as colleges and universities pumped out large numbers of technically trained people.
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