Remember last January when Bush made his state of the economy speech, saying, "You can't compete in the 21st century unless we're educating young engineers and physicists and chemists -- unless our kids have the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st century." Well, it turns out a recent report from the Urban Institute shows that every year the number of of science and engineering graduates (with a 4-year degree) outnumbers S&E job openings in the United States by a ratio three to one.
Instead, Science Progress today promotes the idea of cross-discipline studying when it comes to science. After all, it would be nice to have politicians and staffers who understood the science behind stem cell research or biofuels. It'd be nice if science journalists understood the subjects they were writing about. The list of cross-nondisciplinary jobs goes on. The bottom line is that if we produce an army of scientists and engineers, we'd better have jobs for all of them.
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