MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports September 18, 2019 16:12:00
Sputnik, when we realized the soviet union was beginning to outpace us in terms of our innovation after world war ii, we woke up, we began to put more federal funding into research, into basic research, we began to build these s.t.e.m. pipelines early on that's tapered off in the last several decades. now we see the rise of china, and it's not that we think china has surpassed us, but we need to pay attention to the rise of china and we need to be in a position where now we are reinvesting in our universities, reinvesting in basic research, rebuilding s.t.e.m. programs in k-12 and higher educa...
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