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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now they understand people really want to see some progress on this issue...

[url]http://thehill.com/homenews/house/370316-emboldened-conservatives-press-ryan-to-bring-hard-right-immigration-bill-to[/url][/quote]

We are not facing a shortage of STEM-qualified workers. In fact, we appear to have a considerable STEM surplus. Only half of students graduating with a STEM degree are able to find STEM jobs. Beyond that, if there was an actual shortage of STEM workers, basic supply and demand would predict that the wages of STEM workers would be on the rise. Instead, wages in STEM fields have not budged in over a decade.

http://prospect.org/article/stem-shortage-myth

What’s perhaps most perplexing about the claim of a STEM worker shortage is that many studies have directly contradicted it, including reports from Duke University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Rand Corp. A 2004 Rand study, for example, stated that there was no evidence “that such shortages have existed at least since 1990, nor that they are on the horizon.” 
That report argued that the best indicator of a shortfall would be a widespread rise in salaries throughout the STEM community. But the price of labor has not risen, as you would expect it to do if STEM workers were scarce.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013...of_the_stem_shortage_in_detail

So Many Degrees, So Little Demand - But he believes that STEM advocates, often executives and lobbyists for technology companies, do a disservice when they raise the alarm that America is facing a worrying shortfall of STEM workers, based on shortages in a relative handful of fast-growing fields like data analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and computer security.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlif...tem-jobs-industry-careers.html [/quote]

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