{"id":83,"date":"2007-11-01T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2007\/11\/01\/thats-right-were-not-falling-behind\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T14:16:49","slug":"thats-right-were-not-falling-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"that&#8217;s right &#8211; we&#8217;re not falling behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article recently on Business Week (<a href=\"http:\/\/businessweek.com\/smallbiz\/content\/oct2007\/sb20071025_827398.htm\" title=\"will open in new window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>) on how the US is <em><strong>not <\/strong><\/em>falling behind in math, science, and technology. In fact, we seem to be turning-out <strong><em>more <\/em><\/strong>technologists and engineers than we can use. I disagree.<\/p>\n<p>The problem seems to be that those technically-minded people that US schools are churning-out won&#8217;t work for &#8220;starting&#8221; wages. There&#8217;s a glut of tech jobs. And, ironically, there&#8217;s a glut of tech people. But there are few tech jobs that are willing to pay what qualified people want.<\/p>\n<p>Imported tech workers, such as from China and India, <strong><em>are <\/em><\/strong>willing to work for less money than their American counterparts. They aren&#8217;t necessarily any better or worse at the job, but they&#8217;ll work for less money.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? That means that American graduates end up not getting jobs in-field, or get underpaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article recently on Business Week (here) on how the US is not falling behind in math, science, and technology. In fact, we seem to be turning-out more technologists and engineers than we can use. I disagree. The problem seems to be that those technically-minded people that US schools are churning-out won&#8217;t work &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=83\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">that&#8217;s right &#8211; we&#8217;re not falling behind<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,33,41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-politics","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}