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• While new technologies offer the hope of longer, healthier lives, they could unleash a torrent of investment into life sciences that will boost jobs, opportunities and growth. SKY
• Last year's CHIPS and Science Act is expected to create tens of thousands of new manufacturing jobs and drive up the demand for certain technical workers by as much as 19% over the next decade. Center for Security and Emerging Technology
• Biden claimed that a new law, the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, will produce hundreds of thousands of new jobs. CNN
• The investment in pharmaceutical innovation helps build on Scotland's strengths in health and life sciences, creating new jobs and opportunities as part of a fair and growing wellbeing economy. Scottish Development International
• Jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math are projected to grow by almost 11% by 2031-much faster than non-STEM occupations. Education Week
• While we are over a decade beyond HBR's declaration of Data Science as the sexiest job of the 21st century, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment of data scientists to grow 36% between 2021 and 2031. Dataversity
• The overall job outlook for data science as a whole is rosy - The Bureau of Labor Statistics still predicts it will grow 36% over the next ten years, which is much faster than the average American job industry growth rate of 5%. KDnuggets
• By 2025, emerging technologies such as AI will create millions of jobs in machine learning, education and data science. Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
• Prioritizing initiatives that provide education and job opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science to a wide spectrum of American students and workers. CyberTheory
• In 2022, companies will need to embrace the role of the citizen data scientist, which are employees who work with predictive / prescriptive analytics models but whose primary job function lies outside the field of data science and analytics. Business IT
• The data scientist role has been named the number one job in the U.S. by Glassdoor and according to IBM, there is a predicted increase in the data science job openings and demands for related roles for years to come. Catherine's Career Corner
• Verily Life Sciences, a unit of Alphabet Inc. formerly known as Google Life Sciences, plans to undergo a restructuring that includes cutting about 15% of its workforce - over 200 jobs in total. BioSpace
• Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers are expected to grow at twice the rate of other jobs in the next decade. The Education Trust
• 80% of the jobs created in the next decade will require some form of math and science skills. Elets Digital Learning
• In hydrogen production or advanced nuclear power, the United States is trying to retain its early technological advantage and turn its head start on R&D and basic science into a fully fledged domestic manufacturing industry that will generate hundreds of thousands of jobs. Heatmap News
• Even in 2023, Data Science remains a fast-growing field, and the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics has estimated that the number of Data Scientist jobs will grow by 36% between 2021 and 2031. Towards Data Science
• The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, CHIPS and Science Act, as well as the Inflation Reduction Act, which created hundreds of billions of dollars in incentives, all strengthen clean energy's economic tailwinds, and if implemented correctly, could catalyze a U.S. manufacturing resurgence. The Hill
• Job opportunities decreased in Life Sciences as Covid-19 research ramped down whilst interest rate increases, inflation and supply chain blockages put a brake on the Construction sector. Shares Magazine
• Skills shortage: There are hundreds of thousands of job openings worldwide in data science and the rise of data science needs will create roughly 11.5 million job openings by 2026. Hidden Insights
• Nearly 6 million tech jobs will be created worldwide in the next decade, ranging from programming and software development to data science and cyber security. Yoh

Last updated: 25 November 2024