Maybe it's because we're faced with the devastating loss of 27 more newsroom colleagues that I found Gov. Beverly Perdue's discussion of retraining efforts for white-collar workers one of the more interesting things she talked about in a meeting with the ed board last week. She said it's really the first time the country has been faced with trying to retrain high-finance and high-tech workers for other fields (not that we're high-tech or high-income here at ye ol' N&O, you understand).
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re-training white collar workers
Tue, 03/24/2009 - 19:25 — igliigli"white collar retraining" is not new. The H1B visa fees were suppose to provide training for white collar workers laid off in favor of the H1B visa holders. But, look high and low, and you will not find any retraining being funded. One way to help white collar workers would be eliminate the H1B visa program.