Yes, they keep pushing STEM education, yet the percentage of STEM majors working in STEM is not high. Companies would rather hire foreigners at a lower wage.
The only pushes I see for STEM workers are geared towards minorities and women; apparently our overlords have decided that whatever remaining STEM jobs should be awarded to them. Even with the big push they won’t get takers; both groups have been getting a taste of the “white man’s burden” for a few years now, and they ain’t liking it...
“Companies would rather hire foreigners at a lower wage.”
That’s the bottom line. Even if there was an abundance of qualified American citizens to fill the needs of these companies, they’d still be crying for more foreign workers due to their willingness to work for so much less than citizens with a costly ‘education’ to pay off.