Stan Sorscher is Legislative Director at the Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), a union representing over 20,000 scientists, engineers, technical and professional employees in the aerospace industry. He has been with SPEEA since 2000.  

Stan has a BS in Physics from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley. He worked on X-ray imaging, image reconstruction and image processing, ultrasonic imaging, optics, and noise analysis. Many years ago, he worked did research in statistical physics and biophysics.

Stan is an activist in Seattle Washington, working on trade, economic development, health care, immigration, workforce development and education in science technology engineering and math.  

He manages a co-ed softball team, where he imagines he is the 6th best shortstop on the team, depending on who shows up.

As the economy struggles, we are told that education will be the key to renewed prosperity. So, I was quite surprised to read in the New York Times about a mother who was accused of over-investing in her daughter's college education, by borrowing to send her to NYU. After graduation, they realized the daughter's employment prospects fell well short of the income she would need to pay off her loans.

The article left the impression that the family's resources would have been better spent on some other investment, perhaps real estate, or T-bills.

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After pledging millions to bolster outsourcing in South Asia, federal agency extends largesse to a new recipient.

Even as controversy mounts over its funding of IT outsourcers in South Asia, the U.S. Agency for International Development has announced a program under which it will partner with the government of Armenia—a nation anxious to lure computer work from American shores--to promote the development of the country's information technology industry.