Reforming Education for America's Evolving Economy

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“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future,” to quote Franklin D. Roosevelt. The biggest problem the American school system faces is preparing its youth for the dramatically changing America economy. America’s youth now face competition from automation, a globalized workforce talent pool, jobs being sent offshore, and jobs that require sophisticated problem-solving and higher levels of education. Unemployment, loss of earning power, welfare, and crime rates will all be affected by the choices America makes moving forward with its decision on education reform.
The economy has changed along with technology, but America’s workforce is struggling to keep up with the demands and requirements …show more content…

During the 1950-60’s Detroit, Michigan rose to a population well over 2 million people with 1 out of every 6 employed person was working directly or indirectly for the automotive industry. Many people immigrated to Detroit and was able to attain a middle class lifestyle working blue collar jobs in the automotive industry. Detroit, once the 5th biggest city in America, started facing great hardship during the 1970’s when automakers delivered a devastating one two punch to the workforce of Detroit with the introduction of new technology making automation more possible and more cost efficient. The second was when the automotive industry moved factories and jobs to new areas in effort to find lower wage workers. In 2013, Detroit, Michigan became the biggest city in America to file bankruptcy with debt totaling over 18 billion and now resembles a ghost town since its population has wilted down to 750,000, leaving a lot of vacant homes, buildings, and even entire neighborhoods abandoned. If America doesn’t double down on its investment in education and reform its curriculum towards stem fields, its cities could face the same future as Detroit,

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