Aiken County

While the United States has been known as the land of opportunity inexpensive, quality healthcare has been an unobtainable dream for many Americans. When compared to other industrialized counties, The United States’ healthcare is more expensive, less efficient and more difficult to obtain (Mahon & Fox, 2014). Americans pay nearly twice as much for their healthcare, however the quality of care they obtain is only average. It is these troubling statistics that has lead for a push to monitor health…

Many high-paying jobs in developed countries are in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). For example, in the United States the average annual wages of STEM workers are significantly above the country average (Cover, Jones and Watson, 2011); STEM workers had 26 percent higher wages than their non-STEM counterparts in 2010 (Langdon et al., 2011). In Taiwan, of the top ten highest paying industries in 2011, STEM-related fields took eight places (Marginson et al., 2013).…