Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs
I started a nonprofit 2 years ago (garagescript.org) that hires low income people in San Jose and their full time job is to learn how to code and teach new students.<p>Our nonprofit started off with 20 students, most were making about 25k/year and had no coding experience. I paid each of them 2k / month to quit their jobs and focus on coding full time.<p>From the original 20 students, 6 are left. The other 14 are all full-stack software engineers.<p>If anyone wants to help out, send me an email to song at garagescript.org. I believe the real long term solution is to train under-served communities better and help them acquire technical skills.<p><i>edit</i> remove donation link.