[skeeter]

Reports by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the RAND Corporation, the Urban Institute, and the National Research Council have all found no evidence that STEM workers are in short supply.

All these institutes are lying?

[caligatrux]

All these institutes are lying?

First, just because this guy says that all those institutes agree with him doesn't mean they actually do.

Secondly, they way they are looking at the data may be skewed. This guy says he was looking at people with bachelor's degrees in STEM. A lot of STEM focuses on high school kids and getting them into associate degree programs, votech, community college, etc., instead of a bachelor's degree.

Also, those institutes could have a biases against STEM. Maybe more government funding for STEM means less government money for research grants.

I'm not necessarily saying STEM is super awesome, rah rah rah. I'm just saying that this guy is selling a product, his research, and you should look at what he says just as carefully as you would the claims of one of those As Seen On TV infomercials.