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On the recordSeptember 18, 2012
And, is not the number that something, like, we need 300,000 computer scientists on a national basis every year, and we are graduating like 73-or-some-thousand? We are not off by a little. We are off by a lot.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Senator Cantwell highlights the significant gap in computer science graduates needed annually.

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