Political Quotes

“The reality is that high-technology jobs are being created in America faster than we have qualified people to fill them. This was not expected at the time. In my own county, the Northern Virginia Technology Council did a study that showed we have 20,000 available jobs, average salary $42,000 a year, that we cannot fill. Now, what happens if we cannot find the people to fill them? There is, by the way, a nationwide vacuum in the vacancies in the information technology field, and this is a study by the Information Technology Association of America, the ITAA: 346,000 vacancies for computer programers, systems analysts, software engineers, computer scientists nationwide that we cannot fill. It is building and costing companies more to hire people. We are in a bidding war. Salaries are going up. And with the year 2000 problems and others it is costing our Federal Government billions of dollars more than we originally envisioned because of the scarcity of trained technical workers.”