STEM Jobs Help America Win the Future

Highlighting the significance of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and jobs, the U.S. Commerce Department today free a new report profiling U.S. employment in the critical fields that drive our nation’s novelty and competitiveness. STEM workers are helping America win the future by generating new ideas, new companies and new industries.

Not surprisingly, President Obama has made STEM education a key precedence of his administration, with an ambitious agenda to move American students to the top of the pack globally in science and math achievement over the next decade.

Initiatives like Race to the Top and the “Educate to Innovate” campaign show the administration’s ongoing commitment to making sure Americans get the science and technology skills they require to fill the jobs of the future.

STEM: Good Jobs Now and for the Future, by Commerce’s Economics and Statistics Administration, shows that increase in STEM jobs has been three times greater than that of non-STEM jobs over the last 10 years. And all through the next decade, STEM occupations are projected to grow by 17 percent, compared to 9.8-percent growth for other occupations.


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