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We keep talking about retraining Americans for new technology jobs.
So let's assume every working American is a graduate of some STEM field.
How many applicants is that?
Now how many STEM jobs are available in America right now?
How many jobs in America pay over $15 an hour?
This is a subtract A from B question and is crucial to deciding the credibility of all this talk of how America's job problem is just an issue of needing more education.
That's a big fallacy to assume that you could ever get every working American to learn a STEM subject. A very large percentage of the population is stubbornly resistant to learning anything to do with math or that involves any creative thinking (or working overtime)
That's the reason STEM based jobs pay well. It's because so many people refuse to learn how to do the job. That makes the number of potential employees limited and big salaries are needed to lure the capable ones in.
Adding this: since the mid 1800's math based skills have been the good paying jobs. So there is plenty of information about the need for that information and yet waves of college students are still signing up to pay big college expenses to take liberal arts classes that don't require math in order to get a college degree, but that leave the person with big dets and no job skills.
It's not like nobody knows that STEM classes are a pretty good way to get a well paid job. It shouldn't be coming as a surprise to anybody.
So good luck with getting everybody qualified in STEM subjects.
We keep talking about retraining Americans for new technology jobs.
So let's assume every working American is a graduate of some STEM field.
How many applicants is that?
Now how many STEM jobs are available in America right now?
How many jobs in America pay over $15 an hour?
This is a subtract A from B question and is crucial to deciding the credibility of all this talk of how America's job problem is just an issue of needing more education.
Hard numbers beats speculation.
That is what I have been stating. If everyone is one of five professions being Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer, Accountant, Police Officer, we all be dirt poor except Police since they work for the one above all.
That's a big fallacy to assume that you could ever get every working American to learn a STEM subject. A very large percentage of the population is stubbornly resistant to learning anything to do with math or that involves any creative thinking (or working overtime)
That's the reason STEM based jobs pay well. It's because so many people refuse to learn how to do the job. That makes the number of potential employees limited and big salaries are needed to lure the capable ones in.
Is it because they lack the brain capacity, or because they cannot handle the format in which the subject is currently presented in?
There are three parts here, but many people look at it as two parts: the subject, and the student. But there is a third component, or a middle component actually. That being the teacher/school. The teacher/school formats, and presents the subject. The student is entirely dependent on the teacher/school for accreditation in a subject.
The teacher/school is often overlooked. The student just not being handle the material is often reason stated for failure. But if that many people cannot understand something, perhaps we are blaming the wrong side here.
"So basically, you have college departments today staffed with maybe a dozen or so “real” instructors and three or four times as many part-time educators whose own teaching experiences are essentially nil. Making matters worse, many colleges are simply plucking out grad students and wedging them into undergrad teaching positions— meaning college kids are paying full tuition to be taught by other college kids.
Imagine every high-school course you ever took being taught by first-year subs. That is what constitutes “higher education” in today’s America.
Each university classroom is a tyrant’s domain: Every college student in the country knows you’re not graded on your own understanding of texts but on how well you’re able to tell the professor what he or she wants to hear. You retain the bare amount of information needed to pass tests and pop quizzes, and the rest of the class is basically you brownnosing your way to an A-minus"
We keep talking about retraining Americans for new technology jobs.
So let's assume every working American is a graduate of some STEM field.
How many applicants is that?
Now how many STEM jobs are available in America right now?
How many jobs in America pay over $15 an hour?
This is a subtract A from B question and is crucial to deciding the credibility of all this talk of how America's job problem is just an issue of needing more education.
Hard numbers beats speculation.
The assumption that "every working American is a graduate of some STEM field" is clearly false because someone has to grow food or we will all die, so we can just stop there.
We keep talking about retraining Americans for new technology jobs.
So let's assume every working American is a graduate of some STEM field.
How many applicants is that?
Now how many STEM jobs are available in America right now?
How many jobs in America pay over $15 an hour?
This is a subtract A from B question and is crucial to deciding the credibility of all this talk of how America's job problem is just an issue of needing more education.
Hard numbers beats speculation.
What's the actual math question?
Where is "all this talk of our job problem being an issue of needing more education"?
Lastly, since you were apparently seeking a job just 2 years ago - what's your education level, trained-for field, and what are you actually doing now?
We keep talking about retraining Americans for new technology jobs.
So let's assume every working American is a graduate of some STEM field.
How many applicants is that?
Now how many STEM jobs are available in America right now?
How many jobs in America pay over $15 an hour?
This is a subtract A from B question and is crucial to deciding the credibility of all this talk of how America's job problem is just an issue of needing more education.
Hard numbers beats speculation.
Insufficient information is the answer.
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