US needs 711,000 more teachers in next 8 years
According to Publishers Weekly, Time.com reports that,
as America's 76 million boomers begin to retire (although possibly not quite as soon as they had once hoped), only 46 million Gen-Xers are waiting to replace them.
In the next eight years, the U.S. will need 711,000 more teachers, 151,000 more auto mechanics, and 181,000 additional auditors and accountants (plus or minus those doing time in federal prisons). On the downside, we'll need 328,000 fewer farmers and ranchers, 51,000 fewer sewing-machine operators, and the ranks of movie projectionists will be diminished by 3,000.