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Subject: Faulty State Websites Show Shortage of IT Specialists
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Faulty State Websites Show Shortage of IT Specialists

While the nation’s attention was focused on the troubled rollout of the federal health care site under the Affordable Care Act, the problems with the unemployment sites have pointed to something much broader: How a lack of funding in many states and a shortage of information technology specialists in public service jobs routinely lead to higher costs, botched systems and infuriating technical problems that fall hardest on the poor, the jobless and the neediest.

 

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Pennsylvania Governor Asks Drillers to Safeguard Water
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Faulty State Unemployment Websites Show Shortage of IT Specialists
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