From DICE, January 26, 2009...
Today’s New York Times addresses a question you’ve probably been asking yourself: is any of that trillion dollars of government stimulus spending going to help technology experts get good jobs? Steve Lohr’s article points out that in one version of the plan, there’s $20 billion to computerize medical records, $11 billion to create smarter electrical grids, and $6 billion to expand high-speed Internet access in underserved communities. The hope, according to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, which did a study on all this for the Obama transition team, is that 900,000 jobs could be created in one year, with the better infrastructure created from all this work leading to more digital jobs down the road.
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