... many more topics. As tradition has it men are the breadwinners of the family but during recent years that role seems to be changing. However, now in the 2000's dual career marriages are more popular, and women are coming home to the "second shift", referring to the unpaid housework waiting for parents at the end of the workday. Women spend on ... could easily telecommute and provide valuable services to her employer from home. Because of advancements in technology and falling costs of electronics, many households today have been able to purchase a computer. Of the 105.7 million househol...

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... workers in the U.S. job market per year (American Immigration Law Foundation, Immigration Policy Reports (Companies Face Grave Shortages of Programmers, 2000). One of the problems that the computer industry is having is that, "knowledge and techniques in the software industry change rapidly. A software engineer who learned programming 20 years ago doing assembly programming on mainframe computers ... directly related to the shortage itself. Additionally, discontent nurses go home and spread their feelings to their children, friends, and neighbors, discouraging anyone from considering nur...

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... industry a worker can be expected to know how to read a blueprint, estimate the amount of needed materials, and assess the cost of the labor. Secretaries are now hired for their computer literacy as well as their stenographic skills and their role in business is changing to that of an administrative assistant. The pattern that emerges here is that today's medium skill ... will be available for the unskilled. "What was considered literacy 20 years ago is very inadequate by today's standards," says Debbie D'Amico Samuels, senior research associate at the Literacy Assistance Center in New ...

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