Originally Posted by Dcat

Wow, this little news nugget is just PRICELESS during times like these. YOUR tax dollars hard at work training Sri Lankans to take YOUR job!


U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers

$22 million, federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming?and the English language.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
August 3, 2010 01:59 PM


Despite President Obama's pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $22 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia. Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent's low labor costs.

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