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Ed Markey: we keep reading about this hundreds of thousands or--whatever, tens of thousands, a hundred-thousand jobs that are…

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
we keep reading about this hundreds of thousands or--whatever, tens of thousands, a hundred-thousand jobs that are available right now in the Silicon Valley which we can't fill because we don't have the people trained, technically, for it.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey points out the skills gap affecting job availability in Silicon Valley.

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