STEM / college has been pushed for years by several western countries (I can only speak for those) but there's now a mismatch with e.g. college graduates workin

STEM / college has been pushed for years by several western countries (I can only speak for those) but there's now a mismatch with e.g. college graduates working in underpaid (relative to the promised wages and debts they put them in) dead-end jobs, and an over-reliance on immigrants to do the jobs that people find beneath themselves (or: jobs that employers don't even want to pay minimum wage for)