Obama announced the formation of high-tech center to stimulate

By Jim Kuhnhenn

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama focused on high-tech jobs in their attempt to promote the stagnation of wages in this country.

Obama has to train commitments of more than 300 employers and local governments in 20 regions of the country and to rent, high-tech workers to get jobs increase with higher incomes.

Under the program, the Obama administration is $ 100 million grants for joint initiatives by employers, educational institutions and communities to provide low-skilled workers who do not have easy access to training. The money comes from fees companies pay the government to hire foreign workers in the framework of H-1B visas.

To the communities that have committed to participate are New York, Louisville, Kansas City, Detroit, Nashville and San Francisco.

People familiar with the program inside and outside the White House said Obama announces the program, called TechHire, during a speech Monday to the National League of Cities.

The initiative is preparing for the American working for a growing number of technology jobs. According to the White House, 5 million jobs available today, over half a million of them are in areas such as software development, network management and IT security.

Obama unveiled attention to technology, such as the unemployment rate has fallen, but wages have stagnated.

According to the White House, is the average wage of workers with high-tech skills that a private sector that the average American working 50 percent higher.

The management plan is for universities and community colleges to provide training, but also on the basis of high technology schools from which to train some agreements with the cities for the workers in a matter of months, and help place them in jobs.

Training academies undergo independent studies to confirm the investment rate.

Under the plan, the federal government would provide Federal assistance, as-of-yet undetermined, to help with the training of local governments to take advantage of the high-tech workers.

The unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent in February, but the average hourly wage increased by only 3 cents to $ 24.78 in January. Wage growth has become one of the biggest challenges of the current economic recovery.

"In order to more Americans to train and connect to these jobs is a key program of bourgeois economy President element," said Burns White House press Jennifer Friedman.