President Obama has once again advanced the STEM agenda in the State of the Union address delivered on 24 January. Building upon the "100K in 10" (100,000 new highly-qualified STEM teachers trained over the next 10 years - http://100kin10.org/) theme from the 2011 State of the Union, the President asked Congress to pass legislation which would re-train 2 million unemployed American workers to obtain STEM skills. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/stem-education/2012/01/25/obama-pushes-stem-in-state-of-the-union In a follow-up story, during a town-hall social media conference held on 30 January, the President requested the resume of one long-unemployed semiconductor engineer whose wife participated, offering to circulate it to employers. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-offers-circulate-resume-unemployeed-engineer-google-hangout-article-1.1014377?localLinksEnabled=false ].
To see the full text of the address, visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2012/01/25/2012-state-union-address-enhanced-version#transcript.
To see the full text of the address, visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2012/01/25/2012-state-union-address-enhanced-version#transcript.
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