Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational employment projections to 2016, Monthly Labor Review, November 2007. *Estimated number of job titles for total U.S. Employment 2006-2016

The United States is the leader of the world in scientific research in respect to published accomplishments, Nobel Prizes, volume of research and expenditures on scientific research. The United States is the leader of the world in technology and the leader of the world in the global economy. One of the major reasons the United States is a world leader is its educational systems, including K-12 public education, post-secondary colleges and universities that produce a highly educated, productive and successful workforce.(Example See www.jobseducationwis.org

288 Nobel Prizes in Science 2007

The majority of the jobs of the future in Wisconsin and the United States are low or average paying jobs that require short term or moderate-term on the job training and do not require high-level academic skills in any academic areas, particularly in higher mathematics.

American corporations justify their outsourcing of jobs by bashing American education and quoting statistics about the higher percentage of China and India's college graduates with engineering and science degrees and that there is a shortage of high skilled American high tech workers and college graduates. A January 2006 report from Duke University, published in Education Week,"U.S. Asian Engineering Gap Overstated" says, "It is clear that the U.S is not in the desperate state that is routinely portrayed." Almost one third of the world's science and engineering graduates are employed in the U.S."

As shown in Table II, the majority of jobs in 2016 require short term on the job training or experience or moderate length on the job training, experience or education.Technology makes jobs simpler not more difficult and makes workers more productive. The great majority of the jobs of the future are the same jobs of the 20^th Century with new technological tools making these jobs easier to do. A majority of jobs require only short or moderate length training or experience. The jobs of the future in the United States in 2016 are essentially the same jobs in existence in 2006. There is no crisis in math science education in the United States.

Table II Employment by Education. Training or Experience 2006-2016

Source: BLS Employment Projections 2006-2016, Monthly Labor Review November 2007*Rank order 2006 median salaries

The rank order by percentage of workers employed in jobs by education, training or experience (2006 % 2016 %) is as follows. 1. Short-term OJT (one month or less)(34.7% 34.3%) 2. Moderate-Term OJT(1 to 12 months) (18.1% 17.6%) 3. Bachelor's Degree (12.3% 13.0%) 4. Work Experience in related field(9.7% 9.6%) 5. Long-term OJT (7.6% 7.3%) 6. Postsecondary voc. (5.2% 5.4%) 7. Bachelor's or more & Experience (4.3% 4.3%)8. Associate Degree (3.9% 4.2%) 9. Master's (1.4% 1.5%) 10. Doctoral (1.3% 1.5%)11. Professional Degree (1.3% 1.4%)

Reality is 1. For the majority of the jobs in the world and the U.S., basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and developing a work ethic may be required. 2. Education for education sake is good and is helpful in getting a job and doing it well. However there is a surplus of highly educated workers for jobs that require higher levels of education and training. 3. A majority of jobs in the United States workforce require only short-term or moderate length on the job training or experience. About 21% of jobs might require a bachelor's degree or more. About 32% of workers in 2003 in the U.S. workforce 25 years and over had a Bachelor's degree or more*. 5. About 5% of jobs in the United States in the 2000s might require higher math and or science course work.

*Source: U.S. Census Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement 2003

Dennis W. Redovich, redovich@execpc.com 414-421-1120
Public Speaker and Educational Consultant
Center for the Study of Jobs & Education in Wisconsin and United States
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