ABSTRACT
More and more people are working for companies that are directly related to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). In 2015, General Electric employed 307,000 people in 170 countries around the world, while 55,000 people were working at Google and 98,000 at Apple. Numerous federal government agencies focus on STEM-related endeavors. One of the largest is the National Institutes of Health, which is made up of 27 institutes and centers, each focusing on particular diseases or body systems. The National Science Foundation is made up of seven research directorates and four research offices. In certain areas of STEM, such as computer science, job growth is occurring at such a high rate that the United States is unable to keep up with the demand, and filling those jobs often means outsourcing to skilled individuals from other countries.
