Just this morning I was saying that I failed to understand why the President thought todays kids would pursue engineering degrees when they'll have to compete with Chinese and Indian wage scales. These figures make it pretty clear that isn't going to happen. Just what will it take to indicate to some people that we have a problem, when we've lost 75 to 80% of our engineering positions?
It will take war with China or Russia (another cheap source for lots of competent engineers) for us to see the problem.
One only has to look at the educational structure of Russia and China. The only thing that the Commies do right was/is teach their children math and science. Most Russian kids could easily beat ours in a math or science competetion.
When the kids of today realize that they won't have careers in football, basketball or baseball and maybe they should start focusing on educating themselves..........
FWIW, those "homeland" jobs arent being given to foreigners over Americans, they are being given to the foreigners due to the lack of properly trained Americans. The demand is out there, look at the want adds.
I realize this is anecdotal, but if you have or can obtain skills in one of these areas, you shouldn't worry about employment security.