to expand broadband access, digitize healthcare records and enhance the electrical grid could create more than 900,000 U.S. jobs.According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, IBM research shows:
Investing $10 billion in broadband networks to provide high-speed Internet access to areas that lack it, would create 498,000 new jobs in a year. Investing $10 billion in computerizing health-care records and other health-related IT would create 212,000 jobs. The government investment would come on top of $30 billion in public and private investment in health-care IT already slated for this yearIBM also calculated that $10 billion invested in equipment that allows electric utilities to monitor their transmission infrastructure more closely would create 239,000 jobs. Such technology can tell operators when transformers are failing or wires are overloaded.
