We rightly point to education as critical to addressing the skills gap. Americans are poorly trained for the demands of the skilled jobs they need to fill, across the board-from welders, manufacturers, and machinists to all varieties of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers.
Chamber of Commerce Foundation, I hear what businesses are saying. The same group finds that more Americans think the “next Bill Gates” will come from China or India than from the United States.Īs president of the U.S. The Center for the Next Generation reports that by 2030, China will have 200 million college graduates-more than the entire U.S. Americans are attaining college degrees at a slower pace than 15 other industrialized countries. From the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk to finding a cure for polio, to inventing the Internet and putting Neil Armstrong on the moon, America has led the world in breakthroughs and advances that have changed the world.īut a host of alarming indicators suggest our position of global primacy is slipping-giving way to a significant skills gap. The late Steve Jobs of Apple, Inc., by any measure one of the greatest of American innovators, once noted that “innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” As home to the most prolific innovators in the world, the United States has long been not just a leader, but the leader in the global economy.
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