| "...even using percentage growth, of the top ten fastest growing occupations in percentage terms, only two require a college degree, and one of these is event planners. (The other is the only real STEM occupation, on the list, biomedical engineers). The fastest growing occupation is actually home health aides, which require someone to have gone to high school, but not completed it. What we need is an "All STEM for Some" strategy that creates a great educational environment (like more specialty math and science high schools) for the students who are really interested in STEM.For the other fast growing jobs that pay so little, it's time to consider policies for them, such as an increase in the minimum wage, policies to help companies implement high-performance work systems that can support higher wages, and active policies to figure out how to automate some of these low wage jobs. |
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