President Obama's efforts and his emphasis on education particularly technical education science and math, to want to have every kid in college by 2020, is to be applauded and that's a goal that we at NASA are really going to make sure that he can accomplish."
VOA: standard.2010.05.10
Neely worries about a "lost generation" of job seekers and encourages young people to focus on gaining skills that are in demand skills in areas such as the sciences, math, engineering and other technical areas.
As a result, the report recommends a "science and technical education act" offering loans to college students studying science, math and engineering, with the loans being forgiven if the student agrees to work for the government for a given number of years.