With COVID-19 dealing both a healthcare and an economic crisis, the nation’s governors have been issuing increasingly urgent pleas for skills and supplies.
On a Saturday earlier this month, New Jersey’s Phil Murphy issued one such call. In this case, the ask was not for folks with medical training but for programmers. Specifically, New Jersey was seeking programmers who knew how to code COBOL, a programming language that is widely used on mainframe computers like the systems that process the state’s unemployment claims.
With the spike in new claims, there was a need to scale up. Problem was, they didn’t have enough folks who knew the language itself.
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