Rural outsourcing. Find yourself the following:

1. Skilled labor from a place that took a hit, for example, a place that lost a lot of jobs because a big company took a dive. You want people used to fat paychecks with no prospect of scoring a similar job without moving.

2. A rural area within the US with declining population and no real business infrastructure except for low level services like a clinic, gas stations, maybe a few stores, etc. Kids can only look up to finishing school and leaving town because there's nothing there.

Let's use computer programmers as an example. Say a big software company bites the dust in Silicon Valley, and there's nowhere for the ex employees to go since everyone else is still laying people off. What you do is you pick a handful of the geeks and send them to some rural town, anywhere in the country, and make them teach their trade at the local junior high school.

They get paid a decent wage, plus housing, since housing in that area is obviously cheaper than in Silicon Valley.

They teach the kids something useful, and better: something they can work on without leaving the town.

After they have spent a couple of years learning this, they'll probably be old enough to work part time. You now have a semi-skilled, cheap pool of labor that speaks American English, and you can go seek some delicious vengeance on the overseas outsoucers. FInd yourself a company that is annoyed at having to deal with their overseas outsourcing providers, and offer them the services of your (now) high schoolers, which are managed by experienced programmers.

Do this for a few years, and now you have a fresh generation of kids working at low level, and your high schoolers are now graduating, and they have 3+ years of IT experience and ready to tackle more complex work.

The end results:

1. Your senior geeks get a good job, and they feel like they are doing something worthwhile.

2. A sick town gets a serious injection of cash. There's now plenty of kids sticking around town because there are jobs, and they'll spend a lot of their money on local businesses.

3. The satisfaction of bringing jobs back into the country, and knowing that you are being competitive.

4. These kids can either stay in the technology field, or move to something else, with valuable experience working in teams, driving deadlines, quality assurance, etc. This kind of experience is priceless.

Notice that this would not cost a lot of money. All that you really need is a few geeks, and they would not draw a heavy salary until the projects start kicking in. You can even use merit bonuses to drive them to stick around.

You would need some infrastructure, like broadband for the classrooms, computers, etc. but these can be part of a small incentive package from the government. It won't cost a ton of money to furbish a couple of classrooms with proper furniture and computers, maybe a projector.

Even better, you can take one or two of the instructor geeks and a handful of the brighter kids and move them to a different school to kickstart the program elsewhere.

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