The U.S. News and World Report – Vince Bertram and Justina Nixon-Saintil
“The Department of Labor recently reported 5.5 million job openings in the United States. For many industries, finding workers with the skills needed to fill open jobs is a challenge. This challenge is especially difficult in industries driven by technological innovation, where highly trained engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians and others are in short supply. In fact, the U.S. economy itself is threatened when there aren’t enough qualified people to fill the huge and growing demand for workers in science, technology, engineering and math – also known as STEM – fields.”(more)