Rick Haglund: Research shows trade, not automation, is killing manufacturing jobs

Rick Haglund: Research shows trade, not automation, is killing manufacturing jobs

Manufacturers show their products on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, July 15, 2019, at the Made in America Product Showcase. | Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead, Flickr More than 5 million manufacturing jobs — almost 300,000 of them in Michigan — have been lost since the most recent employment peak in 1998.

Many economists have attributed the huge loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs mostly to booming productivity, enabled by the increasing use of robots and other automated processes in factories.

But Susan Houseman, vice president and director of research at the Kalamazoo-based W.E. Upjohn Institute for […]

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