<p>The truth is, there are just too many people and not enough jobs.</p>
<p>The PBS News Hour did a story about unemployed/underemployed college grads a year or two ago. And ALL the people they interviewed were liberal arts (philosophy, lit and the like). True, job prospects are crap for most science majors, but they know that signing up for it. You do it for the learning, not the money. Which leads me to say that doctors and lawyers make way too much in this country. But that’s irrelevant.</p>
<p>My parents (both physics PhD’s) immigrated to the US to work in US labs. If you look at the National Institutes of Health (federal science labs, basically) employees come from all over the world, and american born US citizens are definately in the minority. </p>
<p>All this goes back to the fact that STEM in US public schools is crap. But I digress.</p>
<p>This is a cool article for further reading [With</a> workplace training, Japan’s Kosen colleges bridge ‘skills gap’ - The Washington Post](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/with-workplace-training-japans-kosen-colleges-bridge-skills-gap/2011/10/03/gIQAF0gmjL_story.html?hpid=z5]With”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/with-workplace-training-japans-kosen-colleges-bridge-skills-gap/2011/10/03/gIQAF0gmjL_story.html?hpid=z5)
Bring back the vocational schools!</p>