Jobs Kritik

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The Future of American Jobs...................................................................................................... 2

The Future of American Jobs is in high-skilled jobs

Trends Magazine, Economic Update 2012, Apr.10, 2012 http://www.audiotech.com/trendsmagazine/research-library/economic-outlook/the-future-of-american-jobs-3/
During the Great Recession, traditional measures of unemployment rose to roughly 10 percent. If you include people whove stopped looking for work and those who are under-employed, unemployment figures rise to at least 15 percent. But the paradox of the new jobs paradigm is this: There

are really plenty of jobs out there. But the kind of workers those jobs require are in short supply, even while the type of work done by legacy employees is drying up. Consequently, we have an over-supply of low-skilled workers, and an under-supply of high-skilled workers. This skills gap is only going to widen as time goes by. So far, the U.S. economy, despite its strong base of high-tech industries, has done a fairly poor job of educating the nations youth to prepare them for the coming wave of scientific advances that will be essential for highly technical industries. Right now, many of Americas high-skill jobs are going overseas to people in Europe, Japan, and Singapore, where the level of education in science, math, and engineering is higher.

We already have a shortage of high-tech jobs and workers

Jane M. Von Bergen Inquirer Staff Writer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 13, 2012

"Despite the clear demand for STEM talent by domestic employers, the U.S. is failing to produce an ample supply of workers to meet the growing needs of both STEM and non-STEM employers," posits a report being released Friday by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. STEM stands for science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics.

US is losing high-tech jobs to Asia

Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post, January 18, 2012 The United States lost more than a quarter of its high-tech manufacturing jobs during the past decade as U.S.-based multinational companies placed a growing percentage of their research-and-development operations overseas, the National Science Board reported Tuesday. The rapid expansion of science and engineering capabilities in China and its neighbors pose a more formidable economic challenge to the United States, according to the group, with Asia rapidly boosting the number of engineering doctorates it produces and research dollars it spends. The number of high-tech manufacturing jobs in the United States has declined by 687,000, or 28 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to the report. Although the long decline of manufacturing employment in the United States is often attributed to the cheaper wages in developing countries, China and developing countries in Asia have in recent years sought to lure more sophisticated manufacturing operations - and better jobs - by expanding their engineering prowess through government investment in education and research. The National Science Board publication issued Tuesday found that other nations, by increasing their research and education spending, "challenge the world leadership role of the United States."