{"id":45215,"date":"2012-02-20T19:46:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T00:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.lclark.edu\/content\/hart-landsberg\/2012\/02\/20\/the-employment-education-mismatch\/"},"modified":"2012-02-20T19:46:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T00:46:12","slug":"the-employment-education-mismatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/20\/the-employment-education-mismatch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Employment-Education Mismatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/mlr\/2012\/01\/art5full.pdf\">published<\/a> its\u00a0employment\/wage projections for the years 2010-2020.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The following table lists the 30\u00a0occupations that the BLS believes will have the largest numerical growth in employment over the period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The table\u00a0is worth a long look.\u00a0 Among other things it challenges the assertion that more education is the key to a better employment future.\u00a0\u00a0More education\u00a0is, of course,\u00a0generally a good thing.\u00a0 But given BLS projections, it appears that our corporations have little interest in creating jobs requiring\u00a0(and thus paying) a more highly educated workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 30 occupations with the largest projected numerical employment growth, 10 require less than a high school education and an additional 13\u00a0require only a high school diploma or its equivalent.\u00a0 Only 4 require a bachelor&#8217;s degree or higher.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media.lclark.edu\/content\/hart-landsberg\/files\/2012\/02\/job-growth.jpg\" alt=\"job-growth.jpg\" height=\"741\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The following table, which comes from the same report,\u00a0shows\u00a0the distribution of projected job openings by education level for all occupations:\u00a079.7% of all projected jobs will require less than a bachelor&#8217;s degree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.lclark.edu\/content\/hart-landsberg\/files\/2012\/02\/education-and-jobs.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media.lclark.edu\/content\/hart-landsberg\/files\/2012\/02\/education-and-jobs.jpg\" alt=\"education-and-jobs.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently\u00a0published its\u00a0employment\/wage projections for the years 2010-2020.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The following table lists the 30\u00a0occupations that the BLS believes will have the largest numerical growth in employment over the period.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nThe table\u00a0is worth a long look.\u00a0 Among other things it challenges the assertion that more education is the key to a better employment future.\u00a0\u00a0More [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45215"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49483,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45215\/revisions\/49483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}