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    “Concerns about CHIPS”

    Article submittedBy Article submittedAugust 7, 2022Updated:August 7, 2022No Comments3 Mins Read
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    President Biden led a virtual meeting on the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act on Monday, ahead of the Senate vote. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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    BlackEconomics.org recently released a commentary: “Concerns about CHIPS” about the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (“CHIPS” is an acronym for Creating Helpful
    Incentives to Produce Semiconductors) signed by President Biden August 2, 2022. The full commentary is below.

    On August 2, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022
    (“CHIPS” is an acronym for Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors). The
    over 1,000-page legislation is far reaching— touching most known cutting-edge aspects of
    science and technology today. The nearly $50 billion CHIPS price tag pays for numerous
    STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) opportunities for Black
    Americans whether one is an entrepreneur, an academician, a college or university student,
    or a pre-K-12 student. However, perfect legislation is seldom—if ever—enacted.

    The following are four clear concerns that we identify with the legislation:

    By explicitly choosing industrial
    (economic) winners and losers, the
    legislation reflects US weakness and
    vulnerabilities.
    1
    • By incorporating a little more than a
    handful of references to “robotics,” the
    legislation does not highlight sufficiently,
    perhaps, the most important future
    STEM-related development.2

    • While the legislation is filled with
    mentions (there are over 110) of
    opportunities for Black colleges and
    universities (otherwise known as
    HBCUs), these opportunities are largely
    nested in non-innovation-driven research,
    teaching, and scholarships, which are not
    entrepreneurial in nature. Further
    investigation revealed that HBCUs will
    likely benefit most from the legislation at
    the lower end of the STEM chain; e.g.,
    offering training, scholarships, and

    developing (research) capacity.3 On the
    other hand, many White research
    universities will likely benefit from the
    legislation by producing innovations that
    may prove to be financially profitable.
    This scenario leaves HBCUs behind
    White colleges and universities in being
    able to obtain maximum benefits from
    Federal legislation.
    • The legislation includes less than 30
    references to pre-K-12 educational
    opportunities—most of which are
    associated with rural schools. By not
    emphasizing this fundamental part of the
    US educational system, the legislation
    does not address adequately, perhaps, the
    need to “infect” youth with the STEM
    “bug” early so that they envision and
    adopt a STEM career choice.

    A point that we can certainly make about the CHIPS legislation is that it sends a clear and strong signal concerning where the nation is headed in the near-term and until there are
    new technological breakthroughs that open new avenues for growth and development.

    However, if past is prologue and future, then by the time Black Americans position
    ourselves to take full advantage of STEM-related economic opportunities, we are likely
    to find that the winds of change have blown again, and that the US economy is headed in
    an entirely different direction.

    Black Americans must find a way to discontinue playing roles as follower and catch-up economic agents. Rather, we must develop a futuristic vision and leapfrog to a future where we serve as leaders and innovators who unearth and drive change.

    B Robinson

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