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US workforce economic health continues to deteriorate as contributing stresses mount. Entrepreneurship educators must more broadly define "entrepreneurship", creating new platforms better preparing society, not just students dreaming of starting something. Beyond entrepreneurship preparation of high school and university students, the task goes to non-traditional education of workers unable to retire and unprepared to finish life as self-employed "unintended entrepreneurs". The greatest challenge in educating a healthier, more entrepreneurial workforce is first creating awareness of the need. Entrepreneurship educators are best positioned to deliver the needed training, but first must create awareness of the need. If they don't, who will?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With student debt at$1.3 trillion, 41 - 46% of recent US college graduates say they didn't need a degree for the job they were able to get, implying roughly $550billion of unproductive education investment didn't prepare them for the realities of earning a living now and in the future. Rapidly changing patterns in the ability to earn an income in the future and their causes are examined. The critical need for competitive productivity in a globalized world is driving workplace technological innovation replacement of human endeavor. A case is made the basic elements of entrepreneurship and the skill set valuable to entrepreneurs should be taught to every student to better enable them to earn a future living in an employment environment vastly different from the past. Today's students will have to be entrepreneurial in the pursuit of their lives whether or not they ever start something. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]