Use incentives to increase African-American, Latino and Female participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics

Listening to Mort Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report publisher react to President Obama's speech about increasing jobs, by saying the U.S. should increase H1 visas to attract technical talent, much of which was trained @ U.S. universities.  Fine, people like Bill Gates and the software industry have been pushing for this for years. It occurred to me providing generous scholarships, internships and research contracts to minority and female students to go into these fields would significantly increase American technical competency and help redevelop the new American worker, over time. I think President Obama supports more spending for education, this proposal would like education more closely to development of the American workforce and global competitiveness. What do you think?

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