Even with the increase in American workers with post-secondary degrees,
according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2010, the U.S. faced a
shortage of 12 million qualified workers for the fastest growing job sectors which include
health care, computer technology and the sciences. Craig Barrett (2004) rationalized the
shortage as due to new participants in the international economy. China, India and Russia
combined make up 3 billion people on the planet. Merely ten percent of their population
is highly educated with a technical or college degree. Even though, the United States
sends 25 percent of its population to post-secondary schools, that number only makes up