Building America’s STEM Workforce: Eliminating Barriers and Unlocking Advantages
January 22, 2021
The APS Office of Government Affairs has released a new report titled “Building America’s STEM Workforce: Eliminating Barriers and Unlocking Advantages.”
It synthesizes a wide array of publicly available data and reports—complemented with surveys of physics department chairs and APS members—to generate an understanding of a set of current challenges and opportunities for action related to building America’s STEM workforce.
Once the uncontested global leader in science, technology, and innovation, the United States now faces a very different competitive landscape. The combination of increased competition for international talent and the nation’s inaction to address inequalities in education and research opportunities domestically is hindering the country’s role as a global leader in S&T and is jeopardizing the economic prosperity it generates.