STEM career viability in a winner-take-all society...

In a previous post regarding STEM career viability I promised more installments on my own personal journey as a biomedical scientist.   But we are going to take a brief detour from academic biomedical research and biotech and make a brief stop in Silicon Valley.  The reason for this is to highlight some basic meat and potatoes compensation issues that are trending through many, if not most STEM career tracks.

Yves Smith of Naked Captialism just posted a blog on the justice department response to a massive wage suppression (price-fixing)  conspiracy that has ensnared the likes of Apple, Google, Dell, Dreamworks, Comcast - and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

STEM Career Viability - Where's the Beef?

STEM education programs are hot...

OK, so we've woken up to the fact that we are falling behind in science and technology.  Almost everyone is making a massive fuss over STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education.  In higher education circles, it seems like everyone is climbing onto the STEM bandwagon.  It seems like almost everyday I hear about a new STEM program.  Some campuses are even building  STEM centers.

Hiring collusions impacting engineers salaries? NO! Really???

Its all over the media.  There is a huge "skills-mismatch" in the US.  In spite of high unemployment, millions of jobs in the so-called "STEM"  (science, technology, engineering and math)  fields are going begging because employers can not get enough "qualified" Americans to fill those positions.