Article: Major Firms Join in Effort to Bring Down Barriers to High-Tech Jobs.

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Aug. 7 -- They're school dropouts, welfare-to-work participants, former prisoners, homeless, recovering drug and alcohol addicts, unskilled senior citizens and others that employers have routinely shunned.

But low unemployment and an acute shortage of information technology workers are spurring some executives now to look at this diverse group as a labor pool.

These executives, in partnership with community organizations, public schools, community colleges and universities, are looking for ways to train people with barriers to employment for high-tech jobs.

"I understand why employers would be ...

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