<story><title>There is no shortage of STEM workers</title><url>http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/02/08/there-no-shortage-stem-workers/79871624/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>myNXTact</author><text>&amp;gt;The truth, however, is quite different. For example, Clemson’s engineering enrollment has reached almost 5,300 students – an 80 percent increase since 2008!&lt;p&gt;Enrollment numbers for engineering students are not really relevant. It is the graduation numbers. Engineering programs are notorious for &amp;quot;weeding out&amp;quot; large numbers of students. His salary statistics are scary though.</text></comment>
<story><title>There is no shortage of STEM workers</title><url>http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/02/08/there-no-shortage-stem-workers/79871624/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>Part of the problem is this whole thing of use &amp;quot;STEM&amp;quot; as though it identifies a cohesive &amp;#x2F; unified group of employment positions.  It&amp;#x27;s too much of a catch-all and there&amp;#x27;s room for TONS of variance &lt;i&gt;within&lt;/i&gt; the overall &amp;quot;STEM&amp;quot; rubric.  For example, you could have raging demand for software engineers at the same time you&amp;#x27;re having massive layoffs among, say, chemical engineers.    So what can you say about &amp;quot;STEM&amp;quot; as a whole in that case? Very little.&lt;p&gt;IOW, precision matters and we should be leery of over-generalizing.</text></comment>