>short term should be number of people working in semi in the US it's not a jobs program and majority of the layoffs are targeting non-technical areas. Raw num

>short term should be number of people working in semi in the US it's not a jobs program and majority of the layoffs are targeting non-technical areas. Raw number of engineers isn't a great metric for government programs either, could be easily gamed. Focus should be on building up the ground level infrastructure needed so actual innovation can happen, not just giving money to Intel and other established players to further strengthen their monopoly