Tech group urges Congress to invest $30 billion in IT

The nonprofit Information Technology and Innovation Foundation urged Congress this week to devote $30 billion of the proposed $775 billion economic stimulus plan toward the IT industry. The result, said the group, would be good for the economy and good for IT--creating or retaining nearly one million IT jobs. More than half of those jobs, will be at businesses with fewer than 500 people, said ITIF. 

"Although projects to improve the country's traditional physical infrastructure (e.g., roads, bridges, sewer systems) are necessary and important, investments in certain parts of our national information technology (IT) infrastructure--America's digital infrastructure--will have a greater positive impact on jobs, productivity, and innovation," said ITIF president Robert Atkinson. A report by the organization proposed that the IT spending be divided evenly.

For more on the IT job plan:
-see this NetworkWorld.com article

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