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(By Paula Span for KFF Health News) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It started with a high school typing course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wanda Woods enrolled because her father advised that typing proficiency would lead to jobs. Sure enough, the federal Environmental Protection Agency hired her as an after-school worker while she was still a junior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her supervisor \u201csat me down and put me on a machine called a word processor,\u201d Woods, now 67, recalled. \u201cIt was big and bulky and used magnetic cards to store information. I thought, \u2018I kinda like this.\u2019 Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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