Why are young scientists struggling to launch independent research careers?

[Sankaku]

I am not sure if folks might have already seen this:

Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-the-us-produce-too-m

 

[Mathnomalous]

Interesting read. Thanks for the link.

 

[union68]

I am not sure if folks might have already seen this:

Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-the-us-produce-too-m

From the article:

As a result, the average age at which the minority of young scientists who do actually land faculty jobs get to launch independent research careers by winning their first competitive grant has risen to 42. At that age, scientists of previous generations, such as Albert Einstein, Marshall Nirenberg and Thomas Cech, were winning their Nobel Prizes for work done in their twenties.

Einstein had a hard time finding an academic job too!