Those Jobs Are Never ‘Coming Back’

Those Jobs Are Never 'Coming Back'

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – MARCH 06: A Volkswagen AG (VW) ‘Cedric’ self-driving automobile is presented during the Volkswagen Group Shaping The Future / Create Innovation event. (Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images) A significant part of Trump’s campaign centered on the angst of the white middle class and the ongoing loss of jobs in the Rust Belt. And that focus gave him his margin of victory.

Trump promised to bring those jobs back, a sentiment that resonated powerfully with the electorate. The problem is— as we’ve talked about previously— that at least 80–90% of manufacturing jobs were lost not to companies […]

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