STEM Key to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing Slide

By David Marbaugh
Feb 14, 2014 12:30 PM ET

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Research intensive industries, like biopharmaceuticals, are in a bind. It is estimated that 600,000 skilled manufacturing jobs are left unfilled in the U.S. due to the STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – skills gap.

And, it’s only going to grow. The private industry will add one million new STEM-related positions in the next decade, but there won’t be enough qualified candidates to fill the positions.

So what do we do as an industry and country? To read more, please visit our blog.