I agree that the job market for the "T" in STEM is good, but that is distinct from the academic job market for PhDs in the natural sciences, as others have noted.
And the reason why that article in the original post was such a failure is because it spent most of its time on the "T" in STEM as evidence for the alleged myth.
I would say that the higher up the STEM ladder you get, no matter what field, the less this shortage is apparent. The greatest pain is being felt at the lowest layers. Think about what has happened in manufacturing... workers are now expected to operate increasingly complicated robotic machinery, and produce work of increasing complexity to increasingly fine tolerances. Your average assembly-line worker needs technology knowledge far greater than he did in the past.
And here's where we see the real problem... all these manufacturing jobs still pay like traditional assembly work, despite requiring costly higher education that the worker is forced to obtain on his own. And so... H-1B.
