Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:01:07 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] Study: There may not be a shortage of American STEM graduates after
 all
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
President Obama has said that improving STEM education is one of his top
priorities. Chief executives regularly come through Washington
complaining that they can't find qualified American workers for openings =

at their firms that require a science background. And armed with this
argument in the debate over immigration policy, lobbyists are pushing
hard for more temporary work visas, known as H-1Bs, which they say are
needed to make up for the lack of Americans with STEM skills.

But not everyone agrees. A study released Wednesday by the left-leaning
Economic Policy Institute reinforces what a number of researchers have
come to believe: that the STEM worker shortage is a myth.

The EPI study found that the United States has =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9Cmore tha=
n a sufficient
supply of workers available to work in STEM occupations.=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9D=
 Basic dynamics
of supply and demand would dictate that if there were a domestic labor
shortage, wages should have risen. Instead, researchers found, they've
been flat, with many Americans holding STEM degrees unable to enter the
field and a sharply higher share of foreign workers taking jobs in the
information technology industry. (IT jobs make up 59 percent of the STEM
workforce, according to the study.)
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shortage-of-american-stem-graduates-after-all/2013/04/24/66099962-acea-11=
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         mark