President Obama Offers Training Plan Designed for High-Tech Jobs

Confronting the challenge of running for re-election while the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, President Barack Obama convened a session of his new jobs council, offering a proposal to train 10,000 American engineering students a year in a program focused on filling high-tech jobs. The program, which President Obama unveiled during a visit to Cree Inc, a lighting manufacturer in Durham (NC), would seek to marry private companies with colleges and universities in a bid to encourage students to focus on science, technology, engineering and math degrees.