"Last month, IBM enrolled its first U.S.-based group of seven apprentices working at the company's sprawling North Carolina campus. All will spend a year learning software engineering, including working in teams on actual tasks IBM needs to be accomplished, while earning benefits and a starting paycheck about 40 percent below the position's regular salary. Several are shifting from other careers."
Well, if they hadn't have decimated the ranks of all the experienced workers through constant RA's, co-lo's, and other morale-shattering methods, they probably wouldn't be in this predicament. Moreover, it has nothing to do with the fallacious claim that there aren't enough STEM candidates in America.
Truly though, just deserves.
http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Amid-shortage-firms-train-own-workers-12380265.php