Despite what Donald Trump says, America’s manufacturers are doing well right now.
Their success just hasn’t resulted in large number of high-paying jobs for Trump’s blue collar base.
Instead, the robots have taken over the factory.Eighty-five percent of manufacturing jobs were lost to technology from 2000-2010, not Chinese job thieves, the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University estimates. And we can expect more automation, and not just on the shop floor. Last year the White House predicted 47 percent of existing jobs will eventually be eliminated by automation and artificial intelligence.While some of those displaced workers will […]
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